The Beaufort County Jail Committee will meet on Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 3:30 PM in the boardroom located at 136 W. 2nd Street, Washington, NC.
Published: Thursday, December 16th, 2021 @ 6:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County Commissioner Hood Richardson, once again, visits the "What's Happening NOW" hot seat, where he delivers some chilling truths about Beaufort County's government.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2020 @ 11:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County Commissioner Hood Richardson found a way, once again, to keep us informed and somewhat entertained as his explains the bold reality of governing as a Conservative amongst the political backdrop of the long years of Democratic Socialist /nominal Republican control.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 5:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In this inaugural episode of Beaufort County NOW's community /regional based program, "What's Happening", where interviewing interesting people will be our prime directive, we talk with 6 term Beaufort County Commissioner Hood Richardson.
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 8:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The jail disaster has a lot of the fingerprints of the fake Corona Virus.
Published: Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 @ 11:12 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Jail expenses in excess of normal jail costs are continuing to accumulate at he the rate of about $25,000 per month.
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2019 @ 2:17 am
By: Hood Richardson
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It is a pleasure to write about good news and what appears to be an improving jail situation. Two events are going to help a lot.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2019 @ 8:09 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Normally, I think of the Grand Jury being my protection or stop gap between overly enthusiastic prosecutors and the court system.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2019 @ 7:23 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Why do we need a jail?
Published: Wednesday, April 24th, 2019 @ 11:10 am
By: Hood Richardson
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In October of 2015, at the encouragement of several county commissioners, members of the judiciary, and many people in the community, Sheriff Ernie Coleman applied for assistance from the National Institute of Corrections to perform an assessment of our Jail and Justice System
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 @ 4:00 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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In each county in North Carolina, the sheriff and board of county commissioners share responsibility for the jail.
Published: Monday, September 21st, 2015 @ 9:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The following Resolutions were duly adopted by the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners (the "Board"), the governing body of Beaufort County, a political subdivision of the State of North Carolina (the "County"), in a duly called regular meeting on the 7th of July, 2015.
Published: Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 @ 10:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recently, I was sent a PDF of a Washington Daily News editorial, by William Buonanno of Chocowinity, detailing the certain ulterior motive by Commissioner Hood Richardson in regards to his campaign to keep the county jail in Beaufort County's county seat.
Published: Monday, June 1st, 2015 @ 8:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I have attached a copy of the death investigation report conducted by DHHS.
Published: Sunday, March 22nd, 2015 @ 11:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It has taken some 2 months to get there, but I finally got a first-hand look at our basement jail which has been the source of much discussion in recent months.
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 7:46 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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First, we recommend that the Board direct the County Attorney to petition for Court Order 13 R 85 to be vacated. To leave the Order in force and subject the County to potential contempt of court liability is a potentially serious mistake.
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 3:41 pm
By: Harold Smith
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Tonight in Beaufort County, two Republican commissioners left the board of county commissioners, and two Republican county commissioners took their place, bringing the total to: 4 Republicans, 3 Democrats. As in the past, the Democrats took control of the board and may well remain in control.
Published: Wednesday, December 17th, 2014 @ 6:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Monday evening, the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners voted to stop all spending and construction planning on the proposed new jail by adopting several measures in a resolution presented to the Board by the Stop the Jail Committee.
Published: Sunday, December 7th, 2014 @ 4:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Stop the Jail Committee is pleased with the outcome of the election.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last night, at Beaufort County's General Meeting for October, a majority of Beaufort County Commissioners saw fit to snatch away Commissioner Hood Richardson's constitutional right to his political speech to further their Authoritarian agenda.
Published: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 @ 12:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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These candidates have taken a position to stop the jproposed Southwest County Jail in the Chocowinity Industrial Park.
Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2014 @ 4:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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What was so disturbing about those political consultants, unaffectionately known as the 'Three Stooges' (WSG), is that they participated in the slander of my person through the mailers and the whisper campaign employing only pure lies about my good character.
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 8:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Several years ago the county was refused USDA financing for a justice center at the Minute Man site because the project's sponsors could not demonstrate sufficient community support for the proposal.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 7:29 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Last week I sent you an estimate of the operation expense advantage that could be achieved by a remodeling the Washington courthouse as opposed to building in Chocowinity.
Published: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 @ 10:32 am
By: Warren Smith
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These are estimated daily expense numbers for the new 176 bed jail as based on an average 140 inmate population, i.e., 110 local inmates plus 30 transfers from state prison system (Al Klemm,: My Turn WDN, March 15, 2014).
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: Warren Smith
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The Southwest County Jail, after the final piece of the puzzle fell into place when Chocowinity's government overruled their advisory board on permitting, was a go.
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 5:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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