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"Texas jail was an Animal House, authorities say"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this AP story, which I just could not resist blogging.  Here is how the piece starts: For months, perhaps longer, the Montague County Jail was "Animal House" meets Mayberry. Inside the small brick building across from the courthouse, inmates had the run of the place, having sex with their jailer girlfriends, bringing in recliners, taking drugs and chatting on cell phones supplied by friends or guards, according to authorities. They also disabled some of the surveillance cameras and made weapons out of nails. The doors to two groups of cells didn't lock, but apparently no one tried to escape ? perhaps because they had everything they needed inside.... There were whispers in the past year about an affair between a female jailer and male inmate, but folks dismissed the rumors as small-town gossip...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).