Trey Oliver never intended on a vocation in corrections but ended up spending the last 13 years of his law enforcement career as Mobile County’s top jailer.
It’s a job with few inherent rewards. Jailers hardly ever get any attention unless something goes wrong – an escape, malfeasance by an employee, smuggled contraband.
That was in Jacksonville, Alabama, near Anniston. After that, Oliver worked his way up the law enforcement ladder to because police chief and public safety director in Saraland. After Sam Cochran won his first election, he tapped Oliver as one of his chief deputies and then asked him to take over the jail when the warden position became vacant.
“All those prisoners that are in prison, where do they come from?” he said. “They came from a jail. … We have, you know, in any given time, several dozen murderers here, rapists, I mean, you name it – it’s a dangerous-risk environment.” In 2019, Metro Jail staff discovered that faulty locks were allowing federal inmates housed in the jail to open cell doors. The U.S. Marshals Service transferred pretrial federal detainees to other jails, and Oliver said the Mobile County Commission spend more than $1 million to fix the locks.
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