Sheriff and warden propose shared lockup expansion for growing Bulloch

County manager says will cost ‘tens of millions,’ proposes architectural firm for pre-design study

This illustration from the county's budgeting retreat presentation shows, with yellow lettering, a rough suggestion of where the new, shared Bulloch County Jail housing pod, Bulloch County C.I. replacement facility and Transitional Center might be built on the grounds of the existing complex. The big red X's suggest that, once replaced, the old BCCI facilities could be torn down to make space for future additions. (Courtesy Bulloch County government)

This illustration from the county's budgeting retreat presentation shows, with yellow lettering, a rough suggestion of where the new, shared Bulloch County Jail housing pod, Bulloch County C.I. replacement facility and Transitional Center might be built on the grounds of the existing complex. The big red X's suggest that, once replaced, the old BCCI facilities could be torn down to make space for future additions. (Courtesy Bulloch County government)

Sheriff Noel Brown and Bulloch County Correctional Institution Warden Randy Tillman now propose a shared expansion of the Bulloch County Jail and replacement of neighboring BCCI plus the addition of a transitional center for state inmates in the final months of their sentences.

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