Dallas County now has their inmates at about seven different county jails across the state.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Dallas County Sheriff Mike Granthum says it has been a logistical nightmare after an EF-2 tornado took a direct hit for the county jail and juvenile detention center last month.132 inmates were inside the jail when the storm hit. Granthum said over 40 of them were booked for murder or manslaughter. He said luckily, none of the inmates were hurt, and no one escaped amid the storm.
Dallas County now has inmates at about seven county jails across the state. However, he said their most “high-risk” inmates are being housed in Montgomery County and Shelby County.Granthum says the most significant challenge they are facing is ensuring they have enough personnel to get inmates to doctor appointments and court visits.
The department has even had seven vehicles donated to them by other departments because their vehicles were damaged by the storm.“When we make an arrest here, we will book them and process them here either at the sheriff’s office or at the PD , and then we have jails on standby that will actually take our inmates,” he said.
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