day-to-day security at the maricopa county jail in phoenix is handled by detention officers. sheriff s deputies assigned to the jail and who are the front line in maintaining order. they re backed up by the jail s intelligence division, which is constantly gathering information on potential problems before they can escalate. the key s going to look like this. okay. it s going to be pretty much just etched out of the toothbrush. okay. all right. but we ve got to hit them quick because if not he ll swallow it. all right. the fourth avenue jail s intelligence division suspects one of its maximum security inmates of having a homemade handcuff key. do the cells in four bravo 200, 100, 3, 4. do they have the back windows into the water wells? yes, they do. okay, they do. we will be monkeying around in your water wells. if you call the briefing room and i don t answer right away, give me a couple minutes to get
display gang symbols. it s essential in maintaining the safety of the facility. i found that hanging here. once it s validated, you ll never be able to go to a level-b facility. a lot of bearing on the inmates future when validated. you can take that and i ll write him up for possession of gang paraphernalia. he ll be documented as a potential street gang member and we ll start a file on him if one hasn t already been created and wherever he goes whether it s to another facility or out on the streets, he ll be identified as a suspected gang member. the letters here in the cell, she found what looks like a diagram or pattern of handcuff key. the crude making, the beginning
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robbery says this isn t the first time he s received a disciplinary report during his time in prison. i ve had dirty urine dr, possession of weapon dr, possession of a handcuff key. several disrespect drs, a couple fighting. during my seven years i ve been incarcerated, i spent about four of them confined. bowden was already in the prison s close management unit when he was caught with the cuff ke key. now he must face the institutional classification team, or ict, who could change his status from close management level 2 to level 1, the highest security level in the entire prison. you re currently a close management 2. your classification officer is recommending upgrade to close management 1. what were you planning to do
know, left texas and went to vegas and left vegas, went to california. left california, went back to texas. left florida, went back to california, then come to alabama and s.w.a.t. team got me. hill s escapes were from another florida prison. no one has ever escaped from santa rosa. but escape was one of the first things that crossed the minds of corrections staff when they discovered a homemade handcuff key inside lionel bowden s deodorant container. having a handcuff key is like for my defense, you know? having a handcuff key is not really unusual, but sometimes it s necessary. you know? theoretically speaking, you know? bowden, who is serving a 21-year sentence for armed