County
Commissioners are putting surveillance cameras at the now closed work camp in
Apalachicola.
The 20 year old work camp closed in 2013 and
moved its prisoners to other facilities.
The facility housed over 250
inmates and had about 70 employees.
Now the 40 acres site belongs to
the county but is sitting unused and that has made it the target for vandals.
Alan Pierce said Sometime
over the weekend of September 25th vandals broke into the generator area at the
Work Camp and damaged the switching box and some other electrical components.
Luckily the 250 KW
generator was not damaged and the county is now seeing if it can be moved to
service Weems Memorial Hospital.
The board also
agreed that the property will continue to be targeted if they don’t take steps
to protect it so they voted to purchase video cameras to monitor the property
until someone finds a use the 40 acre site.
They also agreed
to ask the sheriff’s office to patrol that area more often to look for any
suspicious activity.
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