Jail Lays Off 100 Inmates
Posted on 9/01/2009 by Jeremy Aldrich
HARRISONBURG - Budget cuts are forcing the Rockingham-Harrisonburg Regional Jail to deliver some surprising news to a significant portion of its inmates: they're being let go. In a series of meetings over the last few days, Sheriff Dan Fourleaf has been calling affected inmates into his office one by one and giving them a pink slip to wear with their prison uniforms, signifying their imminent dismissal.
"In this economic climate, we are forced to take steps to right-size our inmate population, so that we can better leverage the synergies of our remaining human capital," Fourleaf said, reading from his standard speech.
Shocked inmates who received the news were told to clean out their areas and were escorted out by security.
Fourleaf said, "This hurts to do, but it's all the result of making hard choices. Is our community put in more danger by releasing these non-violent prisoners or by reducing our police force? If things turn around, we'll bring these folks back, but for now we've got to cut costs and it just doesn't make sense to spend our money on these prisoners rather than law enforcement."
Photo by Brent Finnegan.
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