BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Nov. 20, 2008

Jail: Inmates Used Secret Passage For Sex

Ind. Officials Say 3 Male, 3 Female Inmates Removed Ceiling Panels To Have Sex In Cells

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(AP)  Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to sneak between cell blocks to help pass their time behind bars by having sex.

The inmates figured out how to remove metal ceiling panels in the Greene County Jail and used the passageway more than a dozen times in September and October, according to court documents.

The men - ages 44, 38 and 17 - and the women - ages 27, 26 and 21 - crawled through the ceiling after midnight, having sexual encounters and drinking homemade alcohol that was found hidden in the male cell block, a police affidavit said.

One male inmate who was not charged said the female inmates would "hang-out, play cards or have sex with some of the male inmates" in their cell block, the affidavit said.

The inmates were able to find a security camera "blind spot" where they could remove ceiling tiles and create a passage between the cell blocks, Sheriff Terry Pierce said Tuesday.

The inmates used a shower drain as a tool to loosen security screws and the ceiling tiles were carefully replaced so they did not appear to be disturbed, Pierce said.

"We could not see it," he said.

The ceiling panels have since been secured, and Pierce said he was seeking funding to improve security at the jail, which was built in 1994 in the city about 25 miles southeast of Bloomington.

Pierce called the inmates' activities "embarrassing" to himself and his staff.

"If your facility has a flaw, if you house prisoners in it, they will show you. They will find it," he said. "We're going to have to find a way to have a better security system."

Prosecutors have filed felony escape charges against the six inmates, who were awaiting trial on a variety of charges. Five of the inmates remain in the Greene County Jail, while one has been transferred to the Monroe County Jail in Bloomington.

Pierce said the investigation is ongoing and other current or former jail inmates may be charged.

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by pcreversed November 20, 2008 7:49 AM PST
escape charges?? they did not escape, the stayed there. the sheriff is just embarrassed and is trying to make himself look good by charging these people with escape. It does not make him look better, just makes him look like a bigger fool than he already did.
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by ybotheratall November 20, 2008 8:18 AM PST
Um yeah, escape charges. They escaped from their cell. Doesn''t matter if they went next door for n.ooky or down the street. Escape is escape. They are also a flight risk now and should be charged accordingly. Jail is not for making alcohol and scoring with the women. It''s for punishment.
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by sentry88 November 20, 2008 8:22 AM PST
I have been in law Enforcement since 1977 and i totally agree with PCreversed they did not escape and should not be charged with it. They should be charged wit destruction of property of they did that though.
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by tromboneman3 November 20, 2008 8:31 AM PST
Sentry88,
how did they destroy property, they removed some screws and moved the panel. An easy enough fix. If they had been smart they would have put the screws back in and worked on getting a better means of unscrewing the screws. After they serve their time, they could be hired as inspectors to find these little problems. But I agree they didn''t escape.
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by swingset4u November 20, 2008 8:57 AM PST
Prosecutors have filed felony escape charges against the six inmates

Ummm, they never left the jail. How could they be charged with escape???
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by seer57 November 20, 2008 9:21 AM PST
Apparently your reason is liberal in nature. A cubicle and cell are two different things.One for work ...the other for punishment. By trying to down play the difference between the two you seek to make the jail time an unfair thing.If they wanted to screw then they should have considered that before they comitted the crime. Therefore that analogy is one of a frail decission making ability.
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by colt8881 November 20, 2008 9:30 AM PST
Totally HOT !
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by godseyesore-2009 November 20, 2008 9:34 AM PST
The ingenuity required for *** remains unabated nothwithstanding Sheriff Pie(r)ce''s efforts...
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by ramos937 November 20, 2008 9:49 AM PST
Prosecutors have filed felony escape charges against the six inmates, who were awaiting trial on a variety of charges. Five of the inmates remain in the Greene County Jail, while one has been transferred to the Monroe County Jail in Bloomington.
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The prosecutors are crazy. The *** was consentual. If they fix whatever little damage they did, that should be the end of it.

Frankly, by doing what they did, they relieved stress thereby making things better in the jail. Punishment is wrong in this case.
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by mediabrat60 November 20, 2008 9:57 AM PST
Felony escape charges?
Are you kidding me?
In this economy, with empty food bank shelves, they''re
going to waste taxpayer money on this!?

Boy, I wonder who really has the hard-on there?
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by greggj66 November 20, 2008 9:57 AM PST
Big deal. So they were ***. If the guys weren''t getting it on with the women, they would have been doin it with the other guys so I don''t see what the problem is to be honest.

Let ''em have some fun for cryin out loud.
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by questionnews November 20, 2008 10:06 AM PST
I can''t wait for the "Based on a true story" movie to be made. Coming to Skinamax in January.
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by mytoosense November 20, 2008 10:07 AM PST
They should be charged with Character Slander, They made the jail personnel look like idiots.
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by redgreen68 November 20, 2008 10:37 AM PST
They should be charged with Character Slander, They made the jail personnel look like idiots.


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Posted by mytoosense at 10:07 AM : Nov 20, 2008



Well......if the shoe fits! ;)
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by schoenberg12 November 20, 2008 10:51 AM PST
You gringos should allow conjugal visits in your penitentiaries to avoid these amusing situations.
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by nikosk11 November 20, 2008 10:56 AM PST
Seer57, have you thought writing a book? LOL, LOL.

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by kentankerous-2009 November 20, 2008 11:04 AM PST
So we should execute them, drmaqazi?

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by khalif-obama November 20, 2008 11:07 AM PST
Give them condoms and let them go at it. They''re still off the streets but infinitely more relaxed, less stress on the guards, etc. Sounds like a win-win for all involved.
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by eus109937 November 20, 2008 11:07 AM PST
Keep the prisoners separate by gender so they can only have same gender relations.
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by apdepetris November 20, 2008 11:15 AM PST
Hey, at least they weren''t trying to escape the prison. I''d rather have the prisoners sneaking over to another cell block to get it on then actually being able to get out of the prison itself to commit more crimes.
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by khalif-obama November 20, 2008 11:21 AM PST
If they keep this up, people will be trying to break into the prison :-)
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by jclark7613 November 20, 2008 11:27 AM PST
They didn''t hurt anyone with what they were doing. I''d rather they have *** with each other then two men doing each other in jail. STD rate is so high in jail and one of the main reason is they are servicing each other with no condoms.
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by khalif-obama November 20, 2008 11:31 AM PST
We could use the free market approach... They make license plates and with the money they get they buy the condoms. The jail, in turn, enables a web portal where people can pay to watch what goes on inside the jail. A self-funding jail...
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by lundgren311 November 20, 2008 11:31 AM PST
drmaqazi, how do you know that the inmates were all married?
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by watercam November 20, 2008 11:36 AM PST
This is awful! How could these straight men and women have *** with anybody but their same ***? Better fix that problem so they can go back to raping the weaker ones. That is how it has always been, this is how they rehabilitate.
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by comeon11 November 20, 2008 12:33 PM PST
EVERYONE, drmaqazi IS ACTUALLY A GAY PERSON TRYING TO THROW STONES AT CHRISTIANITY. WE CAN ALL SEE PAST THAT.
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by nomorekidds November 20, 2008 12:56 PM PST
Kinda spoiled all their fun.
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by middleman8 November 20, 2008 12:57 PM PST
So thats what you have to do to find a woman with a *** drive....Go to Jail.
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by uscitizenvet November 20, 2008 12:58 PM PST
Where there''s a will, there''s a way and apparently they were willing and found the way. Maybe the county should provide condoms to keep down STD''s and pregnancy and just leave them alone and let them do their time and enjoy stating awhile.
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by zendigity November 20, 2008 1:28 PM PST
Good for them...You can put people in prison but you can never stop them from being people.

Our prison system is a FAILURE!!!
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by spinproof November 20, 2008 1:50 PM PST
This sounds like one of those deals where the Guards wanted in on the action, was turned down and spilled the beans to get even. LOL
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by notfooled November 20, 2008 2:43 PM PST
Vice-President Cheney has been indicted for crimes related to organized crime in Texas, but the media is hardly carrying the story which should be front page material all over the country.

Hopefully the trials for genocide and crimes against humanity will be next.
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by pcreversed November 20, 2008 2:58 PM PST
MAY GOD ALMIGHTY SHOW YOU THE LIGHT, AMEN.



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Posted by drmaqazi

Please, go preach somewhere else. Nobody here cares about your religous beliefs
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by xxunknown November 20, 2008 3:37 PM PST
haha.
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by libsh8theusa November 20, 2008 4:07 PM PST
I sure wish I was in that jail instead of the ones I was in.. It sounds like a lot more FUN.. Then DC, Beaufort county, and that jail in VA.. oh and the one in CA... Those weren''t much fun..
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by rematenaj November 20, 2008 4:27 PM PST
Very ingenious!
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by firehose12 November 20, 2008 4:41 PM PST
The inmates are typically smarter than those running things.

LOL !!!

Party on !!!

Things could get worse, we could elect a chimp to run things.
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by firehose12 November 20, 2008 4:42 PM PST
All I can say about it is, don''''t go to prison...

Posted by MrNgrmizer at 04:07 PM : Nov 20, 2008

MrNgr

Have you spent much time there ?
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by Druidfaith November 20, 2008 6:36 PM PST
drmaqazi-

Your post about homosexuality, should more appropriately be titled "What the bible says about beastiality". Of all of your examples, you only managed to post ONE item that actually referenced homosexuality... The other examples referenced Beastiality, a subject with which it seems you have far too much familiarity. Further if you are going to keep preaching this dreck, please join your friends at the "Westboro Baptist Church" for the "God hates ***/Jews/Blacks/Women who think/liberals/republicans book burning/sheep shagging/and cross burning festival" this weekend, I''m sure it must be going on somewhere near where you live, maybe you can send some death threats to the Dixie Chicks after you burn their entire catalogue first of course.
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by mom_o_truth November 20, 2008 8:47 PM PST
BRAVO, Salute the innovation. The guards must have been dreaming of that. Did they have a double "menage a troi" ? in one cell ? No, too small for six-s.e.x. Any babies made ? If not, who provided the condoms ?
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by dewbug2 November 20, 2008 11:59 PM PST
I guess they figured it beats the hell out of lifting weights or playing cards....
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by dewbug2 November 21, 2008 12:01 AM PST
autumn987.....you are a whacko....*** is EVIL?.... too bad your parents didn''t feel that way.....are you sure you ain''t related to my ex-wife?
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by djberson November 21, 2008 12:19 AM PST
Filing escape charges against the inmates?? That''s not true. More lying pigs with their ... You''d think pigs would be the first to appreciate that folks just want to pork. Hahaa!
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