“Mark, I have lost so much sleep since being assigned to run this location or this facility, it’s really … it’s difficult to talk about,” Clark said.Ĭlark said manpower is important. “With these kinds of issues, you lose sleep about the safety of your people and your inmates?” Winne asked Clark. And our job is to make it as safe as we possibly can, not only for staff but for the inmates as well,” Clark said. This jail has clearly outlived its useful life. “That tunnel, symptoms of an aging, dangerous jail?” Winne asked Clark. “Absolutely, and it presents a constant challenge for us to eliminate things like this from access to the inmates.” “All of this stuff that could be used to make weapons?” Winne asked Clark, who showed him some of the confiscated items.
“We found shanks that were made from parts of the building,” Clark said. Man accused of ‘randomly’ punching passenger walking off Atlanta airport plane train with his wifeĪfter the stabbing, a shakedown of both zones turned up seven items of contraband including at least five weapons. Pipe crashes through SUV windshield on I-75, impaling and killing Buford woman in passenger seat Warrants detail horrific abuse claims after 10-year-old found weighing 36 pounds in Griffin “In the arena that we are operating now, things of this nature happen far too often,” Clark said.Ĭlark told Winne that the stabbing victim received non-life-threatening wounds and has been moved to the jail medical unit while the suspected attacker faces the likelihood of criminal charges over the incident.Ĭlark said the hole through masonry clearly took time and effort.
The homemade hole in the wall was huge enough for at least one inmate to climb through it into the zone or cellblock next door to his and stab a fellow inmate there, Fulton County Jail Commander Curtis Clark. The interim Fulton County Jail commander said several contraband items were discovered in a shakedown of two side-by-side cellblocks after a stabbing Thursday.īut the big discovery was the hole in the wall that made the stabbing possible. Only Channel 2 Action News got inside the facility Thursday to see the damage firsthand. Channel 2 Action News has learned deputies have discovered a man-made tunnel inside the Fulton County Jail.ĭeputies told Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne that an inmate dug his way through metal and concrete so he could stab another inmate.
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