Inmates held at Jackson County’s new detention center have faced limited hygiene supplies, overcrowding and unfinished phone systems in the facility’s first few days of operation.
An inmate being held in the 470,000-square-foot facility, near U.S. 40 and Interstate 70, shared with family members that there were multiple problems inside the facility after they were transferred there.
“They were moved to the jail too soon,” said the inmate’s grandmother, who asked that she not be identified because she feared for his safety and worried that he might face retaliation. “They weren’t ready, and so they put them in immediate lockdown for three days, and then they let them out, but there’s no phones, and their phones aren’t working yet.”…