Last week, the Authority Board of the Hampton Roads Regional Jail voted to close that jail, which is also in Portsmouth, by April 1, opening up the possibility Portsmouth inmates could move there.
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Authority board chairman Bob Geis wrote in part, "We know this may be unsettling news, but it is necessary given the current and prospective inmate population."