MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAKA) — A $28 million renovation of the Montgomery County jail has cut monthly water bills from as much as $80,000 to just a few hundred dollars — and it’s also transforming the facility into a center for inmate education and job training.
The 90,000-square-foot jail, which is more than 40 years old, has long struggled with failing infrastructure. Sheriff Derrick Cunningham said massive plumbing issues forced crews to remove and replace pipes and drains throughout the building.
“Well, we had major leaks in our facility, so we had to go in and take out all of our plumbing, all of our drains, because pipes had started collapsing and replace all of our pipes, redo our drains,” Cunningham said…