Clayton County Levon Allen is asking the Clayton County Board of Commissioners to provide additional funding for the jail due to safety issues.
Allen invited Channel 2 Action News to tour the Clayton County Jail on Saturday to showcase the conditions inmates live in.
Channel 2 cameras captured multiple beds next to each other in one room, beds in the common area, leaks in the ceiling and mold.
“I got four to 500 inmates that are sleeping on the floor daily, and that’s a problem,” Allen said. “If the jail and the sheriff’s office do not have proper funding, lives are at risk every day.”
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The request comes six weeks after inmate Abdul Woodward beat his cellmate, Jonathan Pettigrew, to death. At the time, Allen said the incident happened because of overcrowding.
“When one inmate uses the toilet and the other inmate’s head is down by the toilet, you will have fights, and when you are in a room where everything in the room is steel, metal, or concrete, it becomes a deadly cage match,” Allen said at the time of Pettigrew’s death.