Jails have bars, fences and corrections officers to keep prisoners inside. But an even harder job is keeping contraband outside. That can be everything from weapons and drugs to cell phones and cigarettes. That task now falls to Sam Houston, the new administrator of Mobile County Metro Jail
) - Jails have bars, fences and corrections officers to keep prisoners inside. But an even harder job is keeping contraband outside.That task now falls to Sam Houston, the new administrator of Mobile County Metro Jail
Houston will face a host of familiar challenges. Designed for 1,150 prisoners, the facility is chronically overcrowded. Burch said the head count on Thursday, which changes daily, was 1,586.died in the past month “When we determined that a correctional officer was smuggling in contraband, they were arrested right there on site in front of their co-workers, and they were booked in front of their co-workers,” Burch said.
Houston and Burch said prisoners and their enablers on the outside have become adept at sending drug-laced paper in mail faked to look like it is coming from lawyers – even producing realistic-looking letterhead.
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