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| Inmates tear up cell |
| By Brownwood Bulletin |
| Published: 04/26/2004 |
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Twelve Brown County (Texas) Jail inmates face disciplinary action after they ripped a telephone off a wall, smashed a television, tore up the shower and broke two windows in their maximum security cell last Monday night, Chief Deputy Mike McCoy said. McCoy said the inmates, who were in a 12-man cell, became angry after jailers going through a school to receive state certification conducted a "shakedown," or search of their cell. No one was injured in the incident, which began around 9 p.m. last Monday, McCoy said. He said the inmates never got out of their cell until they were handcuffed by jailers and taken to individual cells. They face felony criminal mischief charges and other disciplinary action that could include losing privileges, McCoy said. He said 18 jailers from Brown and other counties were attending the school, which was put on by the West Central Texas Council of Governments. Instructors took the jailers to the cell to teach them how to do a shakedown search. Jailers go to work with a temporary state license, and have a year to obtain state certification, McCoy said. He said jailers conduct searches of cells on a regular basis to search for weapons or other contraband. Inmates sometimes make weapons out of toothbrushes, and "if you can imagine it, they do it back there." |
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