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| County Jail Inspections Weren't Working |
| By morganton.com |
| Published: 09/29/2010 |
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I worked for John McDevitt from July 2004 to November 2006 as a deputy sheriff assigned to transport federal detainees housed at the Burke-Catawba detention facility to the federal courthouse in Asheville. In my position I was at this jail daily to pick up or drop off federal detainees. On days when there were no transports I was on standby at the facility. I saw firsthand how John McDevitt ran his department and the jails. I saw the conditions in the jails, but never saw McDevitt anywhere around them. It should be noted that the jails are one of the three legal responsibilities for a sheriff to maintain. By law, a sheriff is primarily responsible for the jails, courthouse security and serving warrants. I never, in almost three years with his agency, saw him inside the jails. While at the Burke-Catawba District Confinement Facility, I observed that the times when the civilian administrator needed or was required to meet with the sheriff he had to go over to the sheriff’s department side of the building. As reported in early August of this year, a recent inspection found the BCDCF jail in a state of disrepair that made it unsafe for the jail employees as well as the inmates. Read More. |
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