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The facility offers libraries, barbering, handicrafts, education programs, substance-abuse treatment, psychotherapy, and religious services to the inmates. Onsite medical and dental care, provided by mini-clinics in each housing unit, is supplemented by local hospitals and the Duane L. Waters Hospital in Jackson, Michigan .
The new Justice Center (which includes the St. Louis County Jail) opened in 1998 and is connected to the Courts Building by a secure skywalk, replacing both the jail in the 1949 Courthouse building and the Adult Correctional Building in Chesterfield. [2] The justice center was rededicated the "Buzz Westfall Justice Center" in 2004. [1]
The world's first inmate video visitation system was installed in late 1995 followed shortly thereafter with a similar installation at the St. Lucie County Jail in Ft. Pierce, Florida in early 1996. Both of these systems are still in operation, however St. Lucie has upgraded to a more recent version.
A guard was abducted Tuesday by inmates at a downtown St. Louis jail, but was freed hours later after a police SWAT team intervened. Officials with the St. Louis Department of Public Safety said ...
A federal lawsuit filed Monday accuses St. Louis correctional officers of putting jail detainees in a room and spraying so much Mace that they struggled to breathe. Other inmates at the downtown ...
Central Missouri Correctional Center (closed June 2005) [12] As of 2010 the state did not use private prisons or export prisoners to facilities in other states. [ 13 ] Previously, in 1995, the state had exported prisoners to the Newton County Correctional Center in Newton, Texas, to temporarily alleviate overcrowding.
The minimum requirements for outdoor recreation in county jails set by Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections (DOC) state: (1) Jails shall provide all prisoners at least 2 hours daily ...
The Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) is a state agency of Missouri that operates juvenile correctional facilities. A division of the Missouri Department of Social Services , DYS has its headquarters in Jefferson City .