The Miller County Sheriff Department has inherited “bolts on the wall” used to house security cameras since the majority of the cameras have been ripped off the walls by prisoners, said Sheriff Ron Stovall.

During a report Monday night to the Miller County Quorum Court, Stovall warned the cost to replace the security system in the jail will be considerable.

“It appears some of the cameras in the cell blocks were not installed right seven or eight years ago,” said Stovall. “In some cells all we inherited were three or four bolts on the walls where the cameras had been in...

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