A plan aimed at reducing the Lamar County main jailhouse's population while increasing the pool of less expensive labor for county use is set to bloom in December.
County officials are awaiting the delivery of fences that will enclose the recently-completed Lamar County Inmate Work Center in downtown Purvis. Once the fences are erected, about 30 male, low-risk prisoners will be transferred from the county's Law Enforcement Complex to the 56-bed center.
"I'll have all 56 beds filled after the first of the year," Sheriff Danny Rigel said. "I think we have about 30 (inmates) in place right now, ready to go when we move.
"We're probably looking at about three weeks because we're waiting on the rest of the fencing right now. We've got everything else in place."
County Administrator Chuck Bennett said two fences will ring the facility adjacent to Mulberry Street - about 50 yards north of the main jail.
"Inside, there will be a courtyard fence with razor wire, and then outside, a fence that's much more decorative," Bennett said. "Both of those are close to being finished, probably in the next week or two."
The project began in late 2010, with the relocation of the county's family/children services department, which had called the building home. The conversion then began, creating a barracks-like facility with its own beds, bathroom/shower pod, visiting area and patdown and surveillance rooms.
When finished, the project is expected to cost about $250,000, including equipment,Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet, supplies, bedding and other materials. Bennett said the county spent $127,166 in fiscal 2011 and had budgeted about another $88,000 in 2012.
"We've spent about $25,000 in 2012 so far," he explained.
But the county also used its own manpower as well as inmate labor to turn the project around in about a year.
"We did a lot of it in-house," Rigel said.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, "The weather has cooperated with us. A lot of good things made it happen.
"It was a priority to us. It's going to alleviate some potential overcrowding in the jail, and it's a win-win for everybody involved - for the inmates, for the county and for the citizens of the county."
The county's jail, which opened seven years ago, can house 164 inmates.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . As Lamar County's population grew following Hurricane Katrina, jail cells began filling up as well.
The jail averages about 130 to 140 prisoners a day, Rigel said.
"We don't have any problems with overcrowding right now, but this is going to help us keep away from that even longer," Rigel said.
Inmates must meet certain criteria before being housed in the work center and before they will be considered for work outside the jail to pay off fines.
"It's segregated by crime," Rigel said. "Anyone convicted of a violent crime or a sex crime cannot. Then, there are other factors."
The county has long-used inmate labor for various work details, like cleaning high school stadiums and county buildings and picking up road litter.
"The fairgrounds has been using inmates forever," Bennett said. "This just brings it to the forefront a little bit more.ceramic magic cube for the medical,"
Plans call to place more inmates as sanitation hoppers on the county's trash trucks.
"We're not getting rid of any employees, but it's an opportunity to enhance and assist department heads with projects," Bennett said.
The sanitation department already has incorporated inmate labor,A long established toolmaking and trade Injection moulds company. and eventually will have one inmate as a hopper on each of the county's seven trucks, four days a week.
"It's been working pretty good, knock on wood," said Danny Young, sanitation department manager. "As long as we keep getting the right group of gentlemen, overall, I think it's going to work out just fine."
In addition to finishing the facility, both Bennett and Rigel said employee training also had to be done before the transfer.
County officials are awaiting the delivery of fences that will enclose the recently-completed Lamar County Inmate Work Center in downtown Purvis. Once the fences are erected, about 30 male, low-risk prisoners will be transferred from the county's Law Enforcement Complex to the 56-bed center.
"I'll have all 56 beds filled after the first of the year," Sheriff Danny Rigel said. "I think we have about 30 (inmates) in place right now, ready to go when we move.
"We're probably looking at about three weeks because we're waiting on the rest of the fencing right now. We've got everything else in place."
County Administrator Chuck Bennett said two fences will ring the facility adjacent to Mulberry Street - about 50 yards north of the main jail.
"Inside, there will be a courtyard fence with razor wire, and then outside, a fence that's much more decorative," Bennett said. "Both of those are close to being finished, probably in the next week or two."
The project began in late 2010, with the relocation of the county's family/children services department, which had called the building home. The conversion then began, creating a barracks-like facility with its own beds, bathroom/shower pod, visiting area and patdown and surveillance rooms.
When finished, the project is expected to cost about $250,000, including equipment,Polycore oil paintings for sale are manufactured as a single sheet, supplies, bedding and other materials. Bennett said the county spent $127,166 in fiscal 2011 and had budgeted about another $88,000 in 2012.
"We've spent about $25,000 in 2012 so far," he explained.
But the county also used its own manpower as well as inmate labor to turn the project around in about a year.
"We did a lot of it in-house," Rigel said.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, "The weather has cooperated with us. A lot of good things made it happen.
"It was a priority to us. It's going to alleviate some potential overcrowding in the jail, and it's a win-win for everybody involved - for the inmates, for the county and for the citizens of the county."
The county's jail, which opened seven years ago, can house 164 inmates.This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . As Lamar County's population grew following Hurricane Katrina, jail cells began filling up as well.
The jail averages about 130 to 140 prisoners a day, Rigel said.
"We don't have any problems with overcrowding right now, but this is going to help us keep away from that even longer," Rigel said.
Inmates must meet certain criteria before being housed in the work center and before they will be considered for work outside the jail to pay off fines.
"It's segregated by crime," Rigel said. "Anyone convicted of a violent crime or a sex crime cannot. Then, there are other factors."
The county has long-used inmate labor for various work details, like cleaning high school stadiums and county buildings and picking up road litter.
"The fairgrounds has been using inmates forever," Bennett said. "This just brings it to the forefront a little bit more.ceramic magic cube for the medical,"
Plans call to place more inmates as sanitation hoppers on the county's trash trucks.
"We're not getting rid of any employees, but it's an opportunity to enhance and assist department heads with projects," Bennett said.
The sanitation department already has incorporated inmate labor,A long established toolmaking and trade Injection moulds company. and eventually will have one inmate as a hopper on each of the county's seven trucks, four days a week.
"It's been working pretty good, knock on wood," said Danny Young, sanitation department manager. "As long as we keep getting the right group of gentlemen, overall, I think it's going to work out just fine."
In addition to finishing the facility, both Bennett and Rigel said employee training also had to be done before the transfer.
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