Beyond capacity: Inside the pressure building at Buncombe County Detention Facility

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Every shift at the Buncombe County Detention Facility starts with the same sound: a door closing.

Major Jillian Banks remembers hearing it when she first started working there in 1996.

“Oh my God, these doors are shutting,” Banks recalled. “You hear the same thing the detainee hears.”…

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