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McCracken County Jail
Jailer Bill Adams

2008 News Releases
June 2008
* Revisions
* Jailer expects to save $250,000 on care

2007 News Releases
July 2007
* Purchase of 7th Street building could alleviate jail overcrowding

April 2007
* Cook, not judge
* Jail hopes to save $400,000 with online auctions
* Inmate lawsuits not seen as extending jail investigation

January 2007
* Inmate lawsuits not seen as extending jail investigation

2006 News Releases
December 2006
* Orazine predicts finale of jail probe??
* Autopsy set today on Paducah inmate

November N
* Arkansas man arrested after truck taken here

August 2006 N
* New state jail requires jails to fingerprint persons being booked into the jail

May 2006 N
* New state jail requires jails to fingerprint persons being booked into the jail
* Jailer Bill Adams wins by a landslide!

April 2006 N
* Higher pay sought to cut jail OT

March 2006 N
* Escapee Captured

February 2006 N
* Jail consultants cost feds over $37,000
* McCracken second-most costly jail

January 2006 N
* McCracken jail to arm deputies on transports
* Informant's jailing sparks precautions
* Paducah inmate admits killing Arizona woman
* McCracken inmates sought for TB tests

2005 News Releases
December 2005 N
* Growing Concern
October 2005 N
* Squirrel Cage Jail
* Plan to cut inmate health care costs
August 2005 News Releases
* Federal visit at McCracken jail "one of best" Adams says
* Feds return to McCracken Jail
* Courthouse and Jail mural August 19, 2005
* Swearing in ceremony August 02, 2005
* New McCracken jailer sworn in: few changes expected by Adams August 02, 2005
July 2005
* Jailer hopes feds leave, too, July 26, 2005
* Alben Barkley award presented to Cliff Gill, July 26, 2005
* Resignation letter, July 26, 2005
* Jailer Cliff Gill announces his retirement, July 25, 2005
* More inmates treated for TB exposure, July 06, 2005
* Numbers decline but jail cases still an issue, July 06, 2005
June 2005
*Inmates at jail get tests for TB, June 28, 2005
*Stakeout apprehends 3 inmates, supervisor
May 2005
* Tobacco shakedown conducted on May 16, 2005
* Jail smoking ban phased in, cigarettes seized at bookings
* Deputy Chuck Upchurch receives loyalty award
* Inmate, most of health costs switch to state
* Jail may get relief from female crowd
* National Peace Officers Memorial Day
* Quit Cold Turkey!
* Harold Taylor Past President of The KJA dies after two years in coma
April 2005
* FOP Memorial May 9th
* Economy, state laws force closing of Livingston jail
* Jail goes cold turkey May 16
* Jailer determines McCracken jail will go smoke-free
* McGee Fugitive from Texas
* 1200 people's junk finds on free dump day
March 2005
* Jailer Cliff Gill shakes hands with Country Chevrolet
* Beach's hiring hit at county meeting
* State forces Calloway inmate to pay restitution in meth case
* McCracken jail escapee found after seven weeks under sink
* David Harris Retirement Luncheon
February 2005
* Walk Away Recaptured
* Paducah Leadership Class tours facility
January 2005
* Graves County Middle School Jail Tour
* Joe Rupcke Escape
* Paducah man charged with bank robbery

December 2004

* Jail Report for 2004
* Christmas Day
* Norman Springs Bank Robbery
* Drug Court Announced
November 2004
* Thanksgiving Day
* Suicide watch receives new cameras

October 2004
* Hooch found in trash can
* Female inmates crowding jail dorms
* County's trash abatement vehicle totaled in head-on collision

September 2004
* KJA holds fall conference in Paducah
* Inmate walks away, but not for long

August 2004
* 2004 Reidland Day
* McCracken Co Jail Implements TCC
* Tubes in boiler
* Jailer Cliff Gill's Statement on the DOJ investigation
* Funds are being raised to replace K-9
* PPD search for murder suspect

July 2004
* New jail Deputies sworn in
* MCCCJ receives a new roof
* Beyonds the myths The jail in your community
* Correctional Healthcare Consultant Gene Baldwin's Letter to the Editor
* Inmate dies of cardiac arrest
* Deputy Jailer Tim Freeman and Cezar

June 2004
* County jails must pay for mental illness drugs
* Ulrichy Medical Concepts launches jail program
* Memorial Services for Deputy Gene Willoughby
* Kentucky Jailers Association 22nd Improvement Conference
* Shot heard across the bluegrass
May 2004
* Jail's website helps locate Indiana fugitive
* What counties can do for prison parents
* Jackson Purchase FOP Lodge #15 2004 peace officers' Memorial Service
* Deputy Commissioner of Corrections visits jail
April 2004
* Jailer Gill attends burial of HL Hunley Crew
March 2004
* Former Paducah firefighter while being booked into jail, found in possession of cocaine
* Reidland and Livingston High School tour jail
* New washers and dryers for renovated laundry room
* Featured artist, inmate Russell Jones interviewed
* New washers and dryers for renovated laundry room
* Jail's art program featured in County Line Publication
* McCracken County to use inmates for trash pickups on roads
February 2004
* Francis Borgia transported to new location
* Jail reprieve delays expansion need
January 2004
* 2004 Leadership Paducah class visit
* Growth of jail may cost less
* Inmate charged with promoting dangerous contriband
* Architechural plans for McCracken County Regional Jail
* Graves 8th grade middle school tours jail
* Women inmates self-esteem hoped to be improved by ministry
* Jail's hot water storage replaced
* Women inmates self-esteem hoped to be improved by ministry
* Bond posted to get disabled inmate out of jail
* Florida Fugitive
* Designs to solve jail overcrowding in McCracken
2003 News Releases
December 2003
* Holiday behind bars brightened with prayers handshakes and candy
* KPS Sex Offender Registry link added to site
* Inmate Move
November 2003
* Thanksgiving dinner in the jail
* Cellblock of the month goes to females
October 2003
* Pepperball Gun Demonstration
* Inmate charged with promoting marijuana in the jail
* Lockdown is working
* News conference on gang activity
September 2003
* Inmate charged with sodomy
* Jailer Gill's Birthday
* 12 Year Sentence for Escapee
* Medication Interview
* Window Screens Installed
* Watson brothers arrested
August 2003
* The Capture of Duane Ramsey
* New Inmate Art
* Pepperball Gun Demonstration
* Elaborate plan to sneak pot into jail brings more charges
* Police memorial will be replaced
* Jailer and agriculture commissioner candidate
* McCracken jail plan adds 160 beds
July 2003
* Deputy Keith Galloway demonstrates jail's fingerprint machine
* Wind knocks over FOB memorial
* Safety Razor Works
* Mental health and substance abuse counselling costs double
June 2003
* Illinois man has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of 20 year old Richard Hill
* Home incarceration shows benefits, limits
* Gill escapes IRS' ire in jail funds mistakes
* KJA Annual Conference
* Inmate Listing Update
May 2003
* FOP Memorial Services
* Paducah Police called to assist Jailers
* Toilet Paper Rope Consifcated
April 2003
* Deputy Debbie Riley receives commendation
* McCracken County Deputy Sheriffs have recaptured a March 26th jail escapee
* Youth Group Tour
* Inmate Telephone System
March 2003
* State Cuts Class D Pay
* McCracken County Jail Escape
* Flags flown in support of troops
* Jail receives frauduent medical claims
* Doctors donate a EKG machine to jail
* Jail expands nursing coverage
* Updates on Harold Taylor's Condition
February 2003
* Paducahan returned to jail
January 2003
* Paducah Leadership Class
* Preliminary study to build jail addition
* REIDLAND HIGH SCHOOL / NEWS RELESASE
* Bus takes 34 inmates from jail
* Jailer's statement on movement of state prisoners
* Walkaway recaptured by Deputy Jailers
* Patton to free 25 area inmates
* Staff at Swearing In Ceremonies
* Early release inmate arrested
2002 News Releases

December 2002
* Oath of Office Ceremony
* Distribution to children of jail inmates
* A tale of two inmates: Fulton jail release today
* Leaders expect more expences, worries from public safety cuts
* McCracken coroner: Cocaine caused death of jail prisoner
* Freedom for felons hits area counties
* State prisoners in McCracken up, but won't last
* McCracken County could lose up to 10 class D inmates

November 2002
* Talk of releasing felons does not surprise Gill
* Crying Wolf
* Former County Judge Executive John Harris Remembered
* Speaker of the House Jody Richards visits The McCracken County Jail
* Ex-jailer pleads in McCracken inmates' sex case
* Veteran's Day Memorial

October 2002
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Jail letter forces Gamble to plead guilty to murder
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Court officer's arrest called a 'bombshell'
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Accused duo met in Paducah's jail: Gill
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Jailer Gill attends NCCHC Conference
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Jail Tour

September 2002
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Cops & Bobbers
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Paducah's newest Police Officers
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Three inmates are convicted of disorderly conduct
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Korery August DOA at Western Baptist

August 2002
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Flags at half staff for jail supervisor Gary D. Turner
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Multiple-purpose facility may ease jail crowding
Justice team to study settlement progress
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Relying on inmate revenue
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Gill: Old jail unlikely to fix overcrowding
Hines puts felons to work after giving probation
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Bunk beds provide cushion for McCracken workers
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McCracken cuts 9 jobs to offset loss of inmates
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PAINFUL LESSON

July 2002
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Jailer Gill on WKYX radio
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Inmate losses to cost jobs, Orazine says
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Jail losses mean cuts elsewhere
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County may unlock inmates
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County inmate labor at risk
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Four of five wanted for murder extradited to Texas
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Adding to jail space studied
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Waltmon and Purvis promoted

June 2002
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Disturbance at jail adds charges for 5 McCracken inmates
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Jail beds appeal made at hearing
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KJA elects two Purchase Area jailers to Board of Directors
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Walk away turns himself in
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Work service inmate walked from assignment
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Patton finds money to pay county jails
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Late jail bills hinder counties
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Jailer named Grand Jury foreman

May 2002
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Jailer Gill won with 72% of the vote
* Memorial Day ceremony
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Oakwood Christian Academy tours jail
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Bunk hearing date rescheduled
FOP Memorial Service with photographs
* Jails logo and new lettering on Class D van
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Jail losing 27 inmates, funds
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W. C. Young Award winners

April 2002
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Bryant, Kauts and Osborne acquire exclusive advertising rights
* Federal court gives favorable ruling to jail
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Commissary funds will purchase new van
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Jail ordered to remove bunks from dayroom
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RHS tours jail
* Leadership Paducah class

March 2002
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Civil War Re-enactment in Paducah
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Parenting classes for female inmates

February 2002
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Law Enforcement Appreciation Night
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Computer glitch repaired
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Jailers attended seminar on jail programs
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Deputy jailer gets fired after sexual abuse indictment

January 2002
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Jail Misconduct charges reduced
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Jail Investigation Update
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Jail guards suspended amid sexual probe
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Jailer's State of the Jail Report 2001
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Jail computers networked with other city and county law agencies
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A & E Network will broadcast the Bobbie Holman murder case

 

2001 News Releases

December  2001
* Jail distributes gifts through Angel Tree program
* Class D inmates that work outside the Jail will soon be wearing new uniforms
* Gifts from jail staff 2001
* Jailer Gill receives master's level certification
* Reidland Middle School tours jail

November  2001
* Jail medical policy seminars
* Escape charges reduced, dropped for trio
Non-Turkey Thanksgiving
Three inmates charged with attempted escape
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Cellblocks evacuated due to smoke on Nov 11 at 4:45 p.m.
* Kentucky one week  court dockets

October  2001
* Snow White encourages a safe Halloween

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Baseball-card thief strikes out on fourth pitch to avoid jail
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Tilghman House write-up in Civil War issue of Times Magazine
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Chaplain Stan Durrett's birthday

September 2001
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Ernie Mitchell interviews female inmates about overcrowding
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Preview of 2002 calendar
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Memorial service for New York policemen
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Bill Hunt retires
* Sanderson and Waltmon examine broken glass at sallyport entrance
* Jail Training Classes at the Paducah Police Department
* State Auditor, Ed Hachett makes courtesy visit

August  2001
Jailer Gill spends night in the Nelson County Jail at Bardstown
County jails want state to pay on trial delays
Vadis Turnbow retiring
* Class D program receives appreciation plaque
* Gov. Patton at Streetscape project and Four Rivers groundbreaking
* Jail operating costs
* 101,508 hits during the month of July

July 200
* Web site received 30,000 hits
* Jupiter Entertainment to air Bobbie Holman murder case on A&E
* Jail crisis due to exploding female population
* Chief Deputy of Administration Vadis Turnbow retiring
* McCracken County workers will begin paying insurance premiums next month.
* Jailer Cliff Gill signed agreement aimed at holding down healthcare costs
* Class D inmates take pride in working around Paducah

June 2001
* Reidland High School jail tour
* Meeting resolves little on County Employees' Health Insurance.
* County Employees health and dental insurance to be studied
* Spray painting outdoor recreation area proved to be costly
* Mother indicted
* Class D inmate  thought missing
* High speed chase ends tragedy
* Jail budget is almost 26% of county's total budget
* Inmates will now be allowed to get married in jail
* Only two TV Stations show up for Carneal sentencing
* County has lost over $137,000 due to the U.S. Justice Department's ban on holding federal prisoners

May 2001
* Update on Carneal sentencing
* Memorial Day Ceremony at the Court House Veteran Memorial
* Weekend of Champions Ministry visits the jail
* Medical consultant studies jail's medical costs
* Response to Courier-Journal investigation
* 2001 F.O.P. Memorial Service photos
* Carneal to be sentenced on June 1st
* Help needed - State creating local problems
* Ford Pick-Up purchased with commissary funds

April 2001
* Medical costs swell at McCracken jail
* McCracken inmate serving 90 day sentence charged for bank robbery in Los Angeles
* Class D Program receives plaque for work done on new Child Watch Advocacy Center - Gov. and Mrs. Paul Patton at ceremony
* A.E.D. Certification
* B.G. Banking Equipment installs teller window and speaker system
* Watermelon examination
* Cobra Banker™ software installed
* New food trays are put into service
* Retirement reception for Don McDaniel
* Leadership Paducah visits the McCracken County Jail
* Larry Sanderson presented with the 8th annual W.C. Young Award

 March 2001
* Four commercial washing machines installed
* Kerry Babb indicted on First Degree Arson charge
* Statement by Cliff Gill Re: Sam Aldridge lawsuit
* SWC installs $25,000 security camera switcher
* Flags at half staff in honor of Deputy Jailer Cecil Reed
* Carneal sentencing moved up to June 1
* Kerry Babb preliminary hearing

February 2001
* "Weekend of Champions" with Bill Glass held kick-off banquet
* DOC's LEAD training program tours jail
* Inmate's delay costly to county
* Adams and seven other state prisoners from McCracken County transferred
* Jeremy Adams indicted for 1st degree murder
* Inmate Kerry Babb is being charged with arson
* Female population lowest in seven years - Gas bill increased 466%
* Jailer Cliff Gill attains Certified County Official award
* Business Law class of Reidland High School on a jail tour

 January 2001
* West Kentucky EMS Association meeting
* Sensible move - County avoids costly jail fight
* Photos of the settlement agreement signing
* Statement by Jailer Cliff Gill on the signing of a settlement agreement with The U.S. Dept. of Justice
* Two inmates indicted for promoting contraband
* Costa Rica students tour the jail
* Jail fees issue
* The Year 2000

 

2000 News Releases

December 2000
* Merry Christmas from the McCracken County Jail
* Jail staff and a jail volunteer have distributed over $1600 in toys and candy
* Let it snow!
* Inmate Christmas Cards
* Cezar assists in methamphetamine bust
* Fugitive: Clinton Brewer
* Headcount for November was 332

November 2000
* Thanksgiving 2000
* Class D work program short 11 inmates
* Daviess County Detention Center letter
* McCracken County Jail saved $1,324.14 in October
* Daviess Co. Deputy Jailers tour the jail
* Cell Block shakedowns reveal surprises
* collection box will receive $1.00 donations for lunches provided to county employees

October 2000
* Positive result : Jail settlement may favor taxpayers
* Darrell Keeling 3 page letter Re: Justice Attorney Andy Barrick
* Pact to settle jail dispute
* Progress made in talks between McCracken, Justice lawyer over jail
* Snow White encourages a safe Halloween
* McCracken County jail meth problem
* Cezar and Tim Freeman at Ronald McDonald House fund raiser
* Statement by Jailer Cliff Gill on free lunches in the county jail
*The Boss safety and security reporting system installed

September 2000
* MIDDLE GROUND - Compromise needed on jail report - The Paducah Sun Editorial
* KFVS-TV Interview
* Cops and Bobbers
* McCracken County Jail K-9 Team to instruct in Michigan seminar
* Both sides at odds on jail needs Nurses, higher beds among difficulties
* 2001 Calendar announcement

August 2000
* "The Cezar Mobile"
* Twin air compressor installed
* 10th Anniversary Ceremony
* 10th Anniversary Flag Raising and reception
* Six jail cells now have panic button

July 2000
* Kentucky's Criminal Justice and the Mentally Ill - by Jailer Cliff Gill
* McCracken County Jail Substance Abuse Clinic under new contract
* Policy approved to allow jail to collect fees from inmates
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ESSENTIAL SERVICE: Jail filling mental health void - The Paducah Sun Editorial
* Jail renews contract with Four Rivers Behavioral Health

June 2000
* Deputy Budge Waltmon presents "Jailer Gillie" to Jailer Cliff Gill
* The McCracken County Regional Jail will start collecting fees from inmates for jail services
* Letter Re: "The Story Of Kentucky Jail"
* 11 inmates removed from the jail's work program after drug tests
* Kentucky Jailer's Association annual four day conference
* Vendor jacks up McCracken jail prices
* GED graduation at McCracken County Jail
* McCracken inmates protest policy with fire The Paducah Sun
* Swanson Commissary representatives install banking and commissary computers
* COST OF CRIME Jail building boom is justified - The Paducah Sun Editorial

May 2000
* KFVS-TV's photo journalist, John Morgan and Lisa Crane, anchor reporter, interviewed Deputy Kenneth Potts about Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS.)
* Retired Shift Supervisor, Deputy Jailer James L. McIntosh died at his home
* Tom Wilson's 8th Grade Lone Oak Middle School tours the McCracken County Jail
* F. O. P. Memorial Service
* Pat Matlock's 8th Grade Paducah Middle School tours the McCracken County Jail as part of Law Week.
* Cliff Gill Jailer on county budget cuts
* Lee Hooks psychology class from Reidland High School Tours the jail.

April 2000
* Response to The Paducah Sun editorial
* Jailer Cliff Gill: news conference on Kevin Hubert
* Burkeen was inadvertently released from jail
* Barbara Murillo retires
* Heath Middle School tours jail
* Infinity Networks installs new inmate telephone
* Washington Street Baptist Church Youth watch K-9 demo at end of tour
* Inmate had heart attack: autopsy

March 2000
* Swanson Services Corporation
* Promotions and Personnel changes
* Joe Arpaio, autographed poster
* Beasley verdicts from the Grand Jury
* Paducah Community College Seniors Program tours McCracken County Jail
* Beasley's held to the Grand Jury

February 2000
* Mrs. Beasley arrested
* Robert Beasley: Walk Away & Captured
* Letter to the McCracken legislative delegation Re: Federal jail investigation.
* Letter from Graves County Middle School
* Hickman County met to gain insight into McCracken County's operational procedures.
* McCracken jail should have nurse full time, Justice attorney indicates

January 2000
* Newly appointed District Judge Bard Brian meets with Jailer Cliff Gill and Medical Deputy Bill Adams in Jailer Gill office.
* In memory of Michael B. Carpenter
* Automated heat and air system: Chief Deputy of Maintenance David Harris
* The McCracken County Jail 1999 year end report

 

1999 News Releases

December 1999
* Christmas at the McCracken County Jail
* K-9 Team: Article from the American Jails Magazine
* Photos of our Annual Ham Breakfast
* McCracken County Jail Calendars for 2000
* December 13, 1999 - - Deputy Jailer, Gary Turner has completed a workshop on Jail Field Training Officer/OJT Program Development.


November 1999
* November 23, 1999 - -
FREE CALENDARS are available in the jail lobby at 400 South 7th Street. The calendars have pictures of the staff and K-9 team.
* November 10, 1999 - Excerpt from a November 10th editorial in The Paducah Sun
* November 3, 1999 - Deputy jailer Tim Freeman and Cezar the jail's K-9 Team, have completed a 40 hour instruction course on canine search and recover. Deputy Freeman will now be able to instruct other K-9 teams in searching for lost persons and escapees. The training classes were held at Fairview, Tennessee from October 17th through 22nd by Canine Search and Recovery, Inc. an international organization of search K-9's. - - more about the McCracken County Jail K-9 program


October 1999
* October 26, 1999 - - STATEMENT BY JAILER CLIFF GILL ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE McCRACKEN COUNTY REGIONAL JAIL BY THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL
* October 20, 1999 - - September jail average; Deputy Collier

 

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