The incident happened Tuesday. An internal email shows Acting Corrections Commissioner Jeff Carson launched an investigation Author: Christine Byers (KSDK) Updated: 6:00 PM CDT July 28, 2021
ST. LOUIS Detainees once again left their cells at the City Justice Center Tuesday and damaged the facility.
It’s the fourth time in less than a year inmates have let themselves out of their cells and damaged the downtown jail.
According to documents obtained by the I-Team, several inmates will be charged with “destruction of property including a microwave, computer monitors, throwing trash and other destruction.”
Carson ordered inmates in one section to be locked down until the investigation into the damage concludes, and other detainees will be able to get their recreation time in restraints, one or two at a time for one hour per day, according to the documents.
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A small group of activists led by Rev. Darryl Gray (center) blocked the intersection of Tucker Boulevard and Market Street in downtown St. Louis to demonstrate in a reaction to the guilty verdict rendered earlier Tuesday in the Derek Chauvin trial. It ain t over, they chanted.
Activists gathered outside St. Louis City Hall Tuesday evening to praise the verdict against Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd, but said much more racial justice work still needs to be done.
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Several dozen activists chanted, “It ain’t over” and “Black Lives Matter” over blaring car horns as they blocked off the intersection of Market Street and Tucker Boulevard. Some cars drove around the activists, and police vehicles later blocked off the streets to traffic.
Inmates at the St. Louis City Justice Center took over two units in the jail on February 6.
Editor s note: After our original story published on February 6, we continued to report as we prepared for the
Riverfront Times print issue. We updated this post on February 10 with that greatly expanded version of the story.
More than 100 inmates at the St. Louis City Justice Center took over two units of the jail early Saturday morning, shattering fourth-floor windows and setting small fires as they called out jubilantly to a crowd of supporters who gathered on the street below.
The uprising began about 2:30 a.m., and detainees held control of the units for more than six hours before jail staff, bolstered by city sheriff s deputies and police, regained custody.