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ST. LOUIS – According to an internal police email that FOX 2 was able to obtain, the St. Louis Justice Center has once more stopped accepting new inmates.
The warning went out at 6:57 a.m. Thursday, saying, “Prisoner processing is not accepting new arrestees until further notice. Please convey any new arrestees to the area stations for booking.”
“I mean, it’s just bizarre,” Alderman Rasheen Aldridge said.
For the second time this week, the St. Louis Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued a directive for officers to use police stations to hold arrestees. South Patrol is reportedly the only location with space.
“We’re making it harder for law enforcement to have to travel further to south St. Louis to put somebody. It takes them away from actually doing,” Aldridge said. “Then what’s going to happen when South Patrol gets full?”
It’s not a capacity issue. The jail can hold 1,067 inmates; city records indicate the Justice Center has 739 confined persons as of August 1. That means there’s room for 328.
FOX 2 reported on a closure of prisoner processing earlier in the ...
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