A jail in northern Texas has been closed and its nearly 60 inmates transferred as authorities investigate what they call dangerous conditions for jailers and those behind bars - including cells that locked from the inside or contained recliners.
Five inmates had already been moved from the Montague County jail to one in a nearby county this month after an FBI raid, said Jack McGaughey, district attorney for Montague, Clay and Archer counties.
McGaughey declined to say what prompted the investigation, also being conducted by the Texas Rangers.
But he said authorities found contraband in the jail.
New Sheriff Paul Cunningham moved the inmates to the Wise County jail on Thursday a few hours after he was sworn in.
McGaughey said some surveillance cameras' cords had been disconnected; recliners were in cells; some bathrooms and cells could be locked from the inside; and inmates had made partitions out of paper towels to block jailers' views inside their cells.
One alarming discovery was a type of rack made of nails.
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Recliners in the cells? This was a jail, right? It's no wonder some want to go to jail and have the things they don't have outside of jail ... hell, I don't even have a recliner and I ain't in jail!
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