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| SC Jail Renovations Almost Complete |
| By greenvilleonline.com |
| Published: 03/10/2010 |
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Fountain Inn put inmate and officer safety at the top of its list of concerns when considering renovations to its holding cells at the city jail. Safety, because it was at the Fountain Inn jail that Richard Javis “Jabo” Johnson, a 25-year-old Fountain Inn man, hanged himself by his long black T-shirt in July 2007. Efficiency, because officers can now perform sobriety tests, take fingerprints and book inmates all in the same secure room, rather than walking inmates through the department's halls from one room to the next. “What you do to make things foolproof, they never are,” said Fountain Inn Police Chief Keith Morton. “But we took extra care in trying to make these as Department of Corrections compliant as we could and as safe to the officers and the prisoners as we could.” Two 64-square-foot whitewashed cells with a one-piece toilet, sink and water fountain combination replaced four cramped and outdated cells that housed bunk beds, a toilet and a bench in the old holding cells. Read More. |
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