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During a rare tour of the facility on Jan. 24, the concrete floors showed enormous patches of paint worn off. An empty basketball court didn’t have a goal.

On a TV screen in the women’s area, Rocky Balboa carried Adrian in his arms on their wedding day, an allusion to happiness and protection. Offscreen, there was little space to walk around. A crack in a light fixture was taped with a maxi pad.

A woman named Fontana Sneed hollered through a nearby cell door. She got the attention of Tammy Ross, who had temporarily taken the helm after former Commissioner Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah’s abrupt departure.Sneed said she wasn’t supposed to be locked up anymore.

“Let me check on it,” said Ross, jotting the woman’s name down on her hand as a reminder.

Sneed, 43, said in a short interview with The Marshall Project - St. Louis during that tour that she hadn’t been able to shower or exercise in the past three or four days.“They are just being ornery,” she said.

Court records showed that Sneed was to be released on her own recognizance three days prior. She had been arrested in early January for allegedly headbutting and spitting at an EMS worker at an addiction treatment center. Sneed was eventually transferred from the jail to the state prison system for a parole violation.

In another area, one man cried out, pleading for his wedding ring. Ross said he should have been able to keep the ring on him, an exception to the no-jewelry policy.

The rest of the men on the wing were quiet. A few lucky ones had their hands on a short supply of computer tablets. Others held blank stares. Ross looked on with approval, describing the silent men as “seasoned.”

“You can pretty much tell,” Ross said, “they know how to jail.”

Rising tensions between the jail administration and the sheriff’s office later culminated with Ross in handcuffs.

On Feb. 14, Sheriff Alfred Montgomery directed a deputy to arrest Ross for not allowing them to interview a detainee who had accused a deputy of sexual assault. They marched Ross out of the jail and across the street to the courthouse, where she was released. Ross filed a subsequent lawsuit accusing the sheriff of battery, unlawful arrest and violating her civil rights.

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