By Chip Scarborough
WTOK
LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Miss. — The Lauderdale County Detention Facility was surrounded with law enforcement officers late Saturday night after a security breach inside of the jail involving dozens of inmates.
All of the flashing police lights outside of the Lauderdale County Detention Facility were a clear indication something wasn’t quite right at the jail. According to Sheriff Billy Sollie, correctional officers were engaging in the 10:00 cell lock downs when some of the officers were overtaken by some of the inmates and their keys were taken.
“This allowed some of the inmates to go from pod to pod to pod,” Sollie explains. “But they could not get out of the C-building itself. That is controlled in a C-tower, which is a locked environment.”
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