WEEKEND EDITION MIAMIOK.COM Have a great day! FAIRLAND OPENS Thanks for supporting WITH SWEEP OF FOYIL your local paper! SPORTS, PAGE B1 6 54708 10125 7 MIAMI NEWS-RECORD Serving Miami and the surrounding communities since 1903. Friday, November 27, 2020 | Vol. 116 No. 95 | $1.25 More inmate security issues at the county jail Carla Nielsen caused some damage and threat- a metal plate and gain access being used and there was a metal removed all the screws and that
[email protected] ened the security of the facility. through the walls into the female plate put over the area where the gave them an escape route. All three Ottawa County com- inmate cells and the mechanical faucets would come through the “The damage wasn’t real bad. MIAMI — When the county missioners and other officials room. concrete wall,” District 3 com- We think they were trying to get commissioners met for their reg- went on a jail inspection tour It is not known if the men were missioner Russell Earls said. “It into the female pod and I don’t ular meeting Monday they were after learning that two inmates actually able to make it into the had been secured with some lag know if they managed to do that greeted with the news that there had vandalized an area in an female pod. bolts and screws, but evidently or not, but that was their motive,” had been another inmate incident inmate pod over the weekend “In the pods there is a shower the inmates somehow got a at the jail over the weekend that that enabled them to remove on the second level that is not screwdriver from somewhere and SEE SECURITY, A3 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Carla Nielsen at 6 p.m.