Floyd County jail tours show facility deficiencies
Lt. Brian Tiedemann, left, and Sgt. Pat Shirley of the Floyd County Sheriff's Office show a tour group the "sally port" where prisoners are taken out of vehicles and brought into the courthouse. Besides being too small and filled with potentially dangerous items, the area opens into a public corridor where people can be waiting for the elevator or passing through to other areas, they said. Press photo by Bob Steenson
Lt. Brian Tiedemann shows an evidence storage area to a group touring the Floyd County Jail and Sheriff's Office facilities at the courthouse. He said one of the problems with the current facilities is that storage areas are located all over the courthouse wherever there is space available. Press photo by Bob Steenson
A group touring the Floyd County Jail stops at the main office of the Sheriff's Office, a space that used to be the living room of a sheriff's apartment on the top floor of the courthouse. Press photo by Bob Steenson
Lt. Brian Tiedemann shows a group touring the Floyd County Jail a holding cell. The cells no longer meet state specifications because of the open bars, sharp metal corners, square footage and other problems that a new law enforcement center with a jail would address.
Lt. Brian Tiedemann, left, and Sgt. Pat Shirley of the Floyd County Sheriff's Office show a tour group the "sally port" where prisoners are taken out of vehicles and brought into the courthouse. Besides being too small and filled with potentially dangerous items, the area opens into a public corridor where people can be waiting for the elevator or passing through to other areas, they said. Press photo by Bob Steenson
Lt. Brian Tiedemann shows an evidence storage area to a group touring the Floyd County Jail and Sheriff's Office facilities at the courthouse. He said one of the problems with the current facilities is that storage areas are located all over the courthouse wherever there is space available. Press photo by Bob Steenson
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