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."
A major regional jail in Hampton Roads will soon be shut down and could be converted to become a new Portsmouth City Jail according to an email from the Portsmouth sheriff to city council members.
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