FAYETTE COUNTY, Ohio — After years of planning, a levy, construction, and delays, Friday night will be the first night inmates sleep in the new Fayette County Jail.
“We relocated 61 inmates beginning at 6 a.m. and by noon all inmates were processed and placed into the new housing units,” said Sheriff Vernon P. Stanforth. “Jail personnel were assisted by on duty patrol units and special deputies in transporting inmates in small groups to the Robinson Road facility.”
Stanforth has oversaw the construction of a new county jail and Sheriff’s office. It came at a time when the state was threatening to shutdown the former jail due to its age.
“The process was planned out over the last several weeks as the facility received final permits to occupy the jail.”
The county’s new jail cost around $24 million to build and had been under construction for nearly two years.