For an upcoming episode of “This Week in the 904,” Action News Jax’s John Bachman sat down with Sheriff Michelle Cook, who said she is working on a temporary fix.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Office said the jail is reaching maximum capacity. As of two days ago, there are 449 inmates in the jail, according to a Facebook post by Sheriff Cook. The maximum capacity is 492.
Cook told Bachman that the current housing market makes it too expensive to build a brand new jail right now, but there is a plan. The third-floor administrative building is going to be repurposed using “American Rescue Plan” grant funding. “We are out of footprint space at our current location. There is nowhere to go,” Cook said. “So, what we’re talking about is it’s going to have to be a separate facility.”
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