The Prince William-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center is being expanded.
Recently the Prince William Board of County Supervisors (BOCS) awarded a $39 million contract to construct the expansion of the detention center located at 9320 Lee Avenue in Manassas.
“Expanding the jail to add 204 beds will cost approximately $44 million, which includes $5 million already spent on design,” stated a release.
Construction is scheduled to begin within the next month and will run through December 2019. Occupancy in the expansion is planned for 2020, according to a release.
The county is funding the project through a combination of the general fund, the facilities capital reserve, state funding, and financing. According to a release, the state has agreed to reimburse Prince William for $21 million toward the project.
More on the project, from a release:
The lowest bid, submitted by Branch and Associates originally came in at $40 million. While the bid was within the budget for construction costs, it did not allow for outfitting the jail, the warranty of the project and project completion. The Prince William County Department of Public Works negotiated with the bidder, and those negotiations, coupled with engineering changes, resulted in a $1.3-million cost reduction.
In order to get the 50 percent construction cost reimbursement from the state, the Adult Detention Center, or ADC, had to have a community-based corrections study, said Col. Pete Meletis, superintendent of the ADC. The plan, which was completed in 2014, showed that continued growth over the last 10 years has made the expansion necessary. “It looked at our current state of the number of inmates we have on the complex, and it studied how many future beds we’ll need on the complex. It’s all based on inmate numbers. We’re currently over our state-rated capacity of 667 by about 300. That includes inmates that are farmed out to other facilities.”
