Posted By Danny Wicentowski on Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 7:34 PM click to enlarge The St. Louis Criminal Justice Center, the day after its second major uprising since February. Entering St. Louis downtown jail the day after an Easter Sunday uprising meant passing beneath burn marks and freshly shattered glass. But during a press conference in the St. Louis Justice Center, the city s top jail official had few solid answers. Even the basics are in question. St. Louis commissioner of corrections Dale Glass noted that the first thing inmates did in Sunday s uprising was to cut the cameras. It s not clear just how many inmates were involved.
JON WILCOX
Over the course of a few days in late February, I watched through my windows as workers emptied out my neighbor s house, filling one industrial dumpster and then another with the contents.
A sweet older couple had lived there since long before I arrived in the neighborhood. I didn t know them well, but we would wave and say hello. As my son grew old enough to toddle around my front yard, the husband would beeline over to coo at him like an adopted grandfather.
We kept our distance after the pandemic began but still waved. And then one day, an ambulance arrived and took the wife away. The husband left not long after. They never came back. I later heard that the wife had contracted COVID-19. She had survived, but in their weakened state, they had moved out of state to be closer to family.
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According to reports, after the two previous disturbances in late December and early January, hundreds of inmates were relocated from the St. Louis City Justice Center.
Inmates at a St. Louis correctional facility in Missouri started a revolt on Saturday, setting fires and tossing debris down on the street. It took corrections officers almost eight hours to regain control of the situation, the local KSDK channel reported.
The prisoners reportedly spent hours tossing tables, mattresses, and other stuff onto the streets, burning some of the objects.