MACON, Miss. (AP) - The new Noxubee County jail should be ready to open by the beginning of May, Sheriff Terry Grassaree says.
The 35-bed Noxubee County Adult Detention Center will replace a jail built in 1977, he told WCBI-TV (https://bit.ly/1NgQgwZ ).
At a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday, Grassaree said improvements include the surveillance system.
“You can watch everybody 24/7. Not only that, the camera is on them 24/7,” he said. Another feature, he said, is telephone visitation so inmates stay in their cells. The new jail also has a place to house women.
Board of supervisors president William Oliver said it has a bit more room than the present jail, but a bigger advantage is “we can add on to it in the future.”
And, he said, “I’m glad to see it because we’ve been working on it since ’06.”
Grassaree says it took 10 years to get up because tax rates and construction costs kept going up. “After every storm it goes up, and then so we had to re-bid, and when you re-bid that causes problems,” the sheriff said.
The county also holds inmates for other jurisdictions, he noted. “Sometimes we have to hold their inmates for a period of times, so now that gives us a better job so we can do it and do it more safer and then they fell better about leaving their people in a secure and sound facility.”
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