CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) A vote to approve funding for the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail was removed from the agenda for Monday night’s Charlottesville City Council meeting, but the community group opposing the project said they still plan to make their objections heard during the public comment period of the meeting.
Fraleigh hopes to have as many as six presenters speak at Monday’s meeting.
“They’re going to put a wall up so people driving on Avon Street won’t see barbed wire. And that costs $1.9 million,” Kate Fraleigh, who works with the People’s Coalition in opposing the project, told Cville Right Now on Monday morning. “They’re not going to finish all the other stuff if they have to stay in budget. All the stuff that is the primary reason for doing is going to get pushed aside. The people who go in the jail don’t care what the outside looks like, how they’re treated and when they’re going to get it.”…