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Corrections employees on conditions at St. Louis Justice Center

ST. LOUIS — A piece of paper serves as a key and a spark inside the City Justice Center in downtown St. Louis. It’s all any detainee being held there needs to compromise the locks on their cells and put into electrical outlets to start fires during a riot, according to a Corrections Division employee who spoke to the I-Team on the condition of anonymity to protect their job. “It’s amazingly easy,” the employee said of the inmates’ ability to unlock their cells. “I'm not sure people understand that you have 60 to 65 inmates up and down, murderers, rapists. “And they just feel like it. So they come out and if they if two or three of them get upset, it's like dominoes. It's like 10 then 15 then 20 and pretty soon you got all 60 of them out. You didn't let them out, but they let themselves out like you let yourself out of your house.” And, it’s been that way for years, according to the employee. “All those locks were horrible when they installed them,” the employee said of the facility, which opened in 2002. “I guess they just crossed their fingers and hoped that it wouldn't get that bad and they could deal with it.” But it did get bad. Read more: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/inv...