“It was really ugly. It was horrible,” Chris Johnson, county operations and facilities director, told the county commissioners of the pink walls in discussing the painting project.
The pink walls were covered in new paint of beige/biscuit color in recent weeks by inmates who Sheriff Dave Duchak said volunteered for the work. The sheriff also provided some pizza for the volunteers.
The painting was done while the jail population was lower than usual because of COVID-19 precautions.
The sheriff had asked about having the walls painted before but the cost was estimated at around $20,000.
Supplies and paint for the project cost about $1,400, Johnson said. “I was willing to provide that if he was doing the labor,” he said.
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