COLUMBIA, S.C. — Movies from inside Alvin S. Glenn Detention Middle have been floating round on social media displaying overflowing sewage in dorms and undercooked meals. An inmate shared their expertise from contained in the jail.
"We're residents and we should not be handled lower than residents as a result of we've got been accused of one thing," the person stated. "The commodes aren't working, we're having to actually haul water in buckets to make the commodes flush. Even when you'll be able to flush feces will come up, again up or it would overflow in one other room."
On Friday, Richland County verified a number of claims of an officer being stabbed within the head contained in the jail on January 11.
A press release taken from the officer says they went right into a unit to serve lunch, then have been hit on the left facet of the again of their head. They eliminated a steel object and obtained medical care earlier than placing the jail on lockdown.
The inmate we spoke with says he's completely satisfied the social media movies are lastly drawing consideration to what inmates are experiencing and the violence throughout the jail.
Columbia lawyer Alexandra Benevento says she. She says inmates have a constitutional proper to fundamental requirements.
"They've a duty to those individuals and their households to maintain them secure and provides them the very fundamental wants, and so they're simply not doing it," Benevento acknowledged.
She defined that below the structure inmates have the proper to meals, water, shelter, and a spot that can maintain them alive. All residents even have the proper to a speedy trial as nicely.
"I feel the county has confirmed that they aren't able to managing this facility, of working this facility in a method that it must run and function, so be a part of the decision for Sheriff Lott to take over the jail," Benevento stated.
WLTX reached out to Richland County for interviews or new statements from the Jail Director or from the County Administrator. Each requests have been declined.
Though the county didn't present any new feedback or data, they did say they're conscious that enhancements have to be made and that they're engaged on it, including that workers and security are a high precedence.