Texas jail closes after recliners found in cells

[RobJohnson]

FORT WORTH, Texas – 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, he said.

How do you sneak in a recliner?

Lazy Boy Jail

[mamacags]

Paging Sheriff Joe!!!!!!!!!!

[bijou]

How do you sneak in a recliner?

Lazy Boy Jail

Same way you would for other contraband (and in very small pieces). 

[RobJohnson]

Same way you would for other contraband (and in very small pieces). 

LOL!!!

[thundley4]

Same way you would for other contraband (and in very small pieces). 

Or have someone like Rosie O'Donnell bring it in whole.

[Tish]

wow a lazy boy? in a jail. mmmm

[Baruch Menachem]

Not that different from the Jail in Mayberry.  Remember the Charachter Otis?    He had an easy chair, a tiffany lamp, and lace curtains for his cell.

[Sam Adams]

Someone here was taking bribes. And an honest jailor would have been in real danger.