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Every chart on this site is built from a machine-readable file you can download below, all of it extracted from the Rappahannock Regional Jail Authority's own July 23, 2026 agenda packet. If our math is wrong we want to be told in public.

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Short. Uncage RRJ is a Virginia 501(c)(4) social welfare organization documenting the operations, spending and outcomes of the Rappahannock Regional Jail through public records, and publishing what it finds with the source attached. It does not currently accept donations.

Long. Uncage RRJ is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization founded by Will MF King of Stafford County, Virginia. It uses the Virginia Freedom of Information Act to obtain the Rappahannock Regional Jail Authority's own operational and financial records, performs and publishes the arithmetic on them with full provenance, gives public comment at the meetings of the Authority Board and the four member localities that fund it, and proposes converting the facility into a restoration center. It publishes no testimony without written consent, currently accepts no donations, and endorses no candidates.

Attribution: “Uncage RRJ” on first reference; “Uncage RRJ” thereafter. Will MF King, founder and facilitator. Site: uncage-rrj.org.

Contact

uncagerrj@protonmail.com for interviews, figures and records questions — the only address we publish. We answer press same day where we can, and we say when a figure is unaudited, when an account is reported rather than documented, and when we do not know.

We keep a private roster of reporters who have covered this jail, and do not publish it.

Using these figures

  • All financial and operational figures are unaudited management reports prepared by the Authority for its Board, not audited financial statements. Say so.
  • Fiscal years run July 1 to June 30. FY2026 means July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
  • Cost-per-day figures on this site are the FY2026 appropriation divided by FY2026 local prisoner days. They are average cost, not marginal cost, and they exclude federal prisoner days, which are billed separately.
  • Where the source packet contradicts itself, our packet index names the inconsistency and the page. We used the report closest to the underlying transaction and said which.
  • Retrieved August 22, 2026 from the Authority's published packet. rrj.state.va.us

Identity

Five ascending bars between two rails: a cage one way, a bar chart the other. One color, black or paper cream; minimum height 24 px; clear space of one bar on all sides. No stretching, gradients, or photographs behind it. Download the mark (SVG)

Datasets

Every file behind every chart

Machine-readable extractions from the RRJA July 23, 2026 agenda packet. Retrieved August 22, 2026. Public records; unaudited.
FileWhat it contains
RRJA-2026-07-23-prisoner-days.csvLocal prisoner days and average daily population by month and member locality, FY2025 and FY2026
RRJA-2026-07-23-revenue-summary.csvGeneral Fund revenue by line, FY2026 budget versus year-to-date actual
RRJA-2026-07-23-expenditure-summary.csvExpenditures by category, FY2026 budget versus year-to-date actual
RRJA-2026-07-23-balance-sheets.csvFund balance sheets, FY2026
RRJA-2026-07-23-program-statistics.csvMonthly program and performance measures including grievances, appeals, psychotropic prescriptions and program participation, FY2026
RRJA-2026-07-23-community-corrections.csvMonthly caseloads for pretrial supervision, community-based probation, drug treatment courts and electronic monitoring, FY2026
RRJA-2026-07-23-federal-billing-12-month.csvFederal per-diem billing by agency, rolling 12 months
RRJA-2026-07-23-federal-overhead-recovery.csvFederal overhead recovery and federal prisoner days
RRJA-2026-07-23-federal-contract-billing.csvFederal contract billing detail
RRJA-2026-07-23-work-release-revenues.csvWork release and electronic monitoring fee revenue by month, FY2026
RRJA-2026-07-23-adc-awaiting-certification.csvAverage daily count of people awaiting certification
RRJA-2026-07-23-packet-INDEX.mdOur page-level index of the July 23, 2026 agenda packet, including known limits and internal inconsistencies in the source
foia_docket.mdThe full FOIA docket: twenty-one public-records threads with this jail, January 2025 to August 2026, with every dated response, the Code sections cited to withhold, the fees demanded and per-entry source notes. Requesters other than Uncage RRJ appear as role descriptors only
BLRJ-CY2024-Annual-Report-Jail-Death-Reviews.pdfVirginia Board of Local and Regional Jails, Calendar Year 2024 Annual Report of Jail Death Reviews, July 1, 2025 — the published state record behind the nine deaths at this jail and the 167 statewide, CY2022–CY2024. Not our document; the Commonwealth's

These are our extractions, not the Authority's files. Errors in transcription are ours and we want them reported. The original packet is published by the Authority at rrj.state.va.us.

Headline figures, with provenance

The five numbers a story usually needs

$124.34 Cost per local prisoner day, FY2026 $53,209,301 appropriation ÷ 403,522 local prisoner days. Financial and prisoner-day reports.
$2,262,599.53 Paid by incarcerated people and their families, FY2026 Six General Fund revenue lines: telephone, phone-time purchase, commissary, food commission, video visitation, tablet commission. Revenue summary.
1,105.34 Average daily local population, FY2026 Down 1.09% from FY2025. Prisoner-day report.
63.0% Grievances closed without investigation, FY2026 1,206 of 1,915 filed. Monthly performance measures.
8.889% FY’27 budget increase, approved January 22, 2026 $57,939,497 against $53,209,301 in FY2026. Board minutes.
1.71× Community corrections caseload versus jail population, June 2026 1,856.75 supervised in the community against 1,084.47 held. Community corrections report.