MANASSAS, Va. -- Growing pains at a jail in Manassas prompted officials Tuesday to urge leaders to fund an expansion of the facility.
The Prince William County / Manassas Adult Detention Center houses nearly 972 inmates – all of them arrested and processed into the jail from police in Prince William County, Manassas, and Manassas Park. The jail sits next to the county’s courthouse on Lee Avenue, and because inmates keep coming, it has already outgrown a $2.1 million Phase I expansion that opened in 2008.
Now Sheriff Glen Hill and Jail Administrator Col. Peter Meletis have asked for $60 million for a Phase II expansion of the jail, a supplement to the Phase I expansion to include 200 more beds, and would accommodate the projected growth for the jail over the next 10 years. Hill and Meleits asked for the money to be included in the county’s capital improvement plan for the years 2014 through 2019. The Prince William County Board of Supervisors are currently working on their budget proposal for the coming year and evaluating their CIP budget.
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