Jackson Jambalaya

You actually let your camera blur and barely caught the camera but you can see it. If you look you will see black dome hanging off the wall.I used to work at RDC and can tell you that there are cameras in each unit that can move around and zoom. The old commander under mcmillian used to watch them at night from his house and come up there whenever he saw something he didn't like. Picou and Lewis saying there is no cameras is a bold faced lie.

how's about for starters building 3 rows of fencing complete with razor and electrical wire. Then build 5 lookout towers armed with mini-14's or shotguns with rubber bullet's. Have deputies patrol the fence perimeter in 30 min intervals. True that jail was a disaster from day one, but it seems to me that someone was just lazy and let the inmates take over.

We don't like to think this part of the world exists, or, if it does, that it's safely removed from us.

I am not real sure of what is going on. I do know I seemed to never hear of jail escape issues under the former sheriff-at least not like I do now. Pressing concerns need to be dealt with/corrected but the press needs to address the construction of the prison-the construction company, the contract and board of supervisors. It seems that Sheriff Lewis was welcomed by the Supervisors-many of those same supervisors who were a pain to the former sheriff. Let's see if they can work together to correct this problem. Last, Sheriff Lewis seems to have brought in many new people-many from the Jackson Police Department-to do a job in the county that many couldn't do in the city. I would not pay or receive any amount of money to live or place my office in Hinds County.

The former Sheriff Malcolm McMillin would have prisoners escape every now and then. It appears Sheriff Lewis has inherited a problems from the former Sheriff McMillin. I guess a fancy Criminal Justice Masters Degree from Mississippi College didn't make McMillin a good sheriff after all. If Hinds County does build new jail I think the prisoners should not have air conditioning just like Parchman Prison.

Sheriff Lewis said in the video that they are housing MDOC prisoners then the State of Mississippi needs to help Hinds County build a new jail. Making repairs to this jail would be like putting lipstick on a pig.

I don't think the Hinds County Hinds County Maintenance Division could handle a big project such as this. Hinds County would have to hire a construction company to handle big repairs like this.

Kenny wants a new jail so that there is not enough bonding capacity remaining available to finish the Byram-Clinton parkway.

8:51 scares me. First, he seems to be cut from the cloth of 'let's blame the prior guy'. Where have we heard that every day for three years? Secondly he hints at the possibility the county maintenance department might be called on to build a jail. Lastly, he doesn't know that MDOC prisoners housed in non-MDOC facilities must be in facilities that meet the same federal (Keady, Rims Barber et al) requirements as those in Parchman.

Kenny doesn't have the mental ability to think forward like that 9:44.

Harvey does.

As far as the lack of cameras, remember when all those jailers were fired by McMillin? It was because the proof came from the cameras in the jail. So apparently Lewis' administration has removed the pre-existing cameras. And he's (Lewis)so knowledgeable that he didn't even know how many pods there are to the detention center! And if it takes as many jailers to staff a pod as Lewis said, why was it that the only deputies he had standing around him was warrant deputies???? The only "jailer" was the one doing the tour and interview! I think it's time they stopped passing blame and look inside their own current administration!

the sheriff has little knowledge of a facility he is responsible for.