Plans to build a new Hall County Correctional Institute are moving forward after county commissioners unanimously approved the architectural contract at Thursday’s meeting. Commissioners awarded the $248,000 contract to IPG Inc., an architecture and planning firm out of Valdosta, for the design phase of a new correctional institute, to be built next door to the existing building. “This is a wonderful opportunity for us to build a very efficient project for the taxpayers of Hall County,” Warden Walt Davis told the Hall County Board of Commissioners.