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Jailhouse Spirit

I currently work for a Sheriff Department in the southeast in the corrections division. My county being one of the larger ones in the southeast has a good solid mix of outstanding characters, but that's a whole other post. One night in-particular I was assigned to our non-violent general population floor, the inmates you can expect on this floor are all here for drug/alcohol related charges, some have missed court dates or just haven't paid their child support. One night an inmate starts kicking his cell door to get our attention. When we finally find the cell the inmate tells us that his cell mate has fallen out of his bed, and has begun shaking, by the time we had entered the cell the inmate was not moving or breathing we on the floor of course call for the medical personal that work in the jail, they in turn called for the local city fire and ems to come and evaluate and take him to the hospital in downtown, and while they were on their way we began trying to help best we could. Long story short the inmate dies of a drug overdose right there in front of us, come to find out via the autopsy he had swallowed quite a few bags of heroin as he was a dealer.

Anyway time moved on, and I had all but forgotten the man, until a few weeks later, I was assigned to that floor again which was a usual floor I worked and I didn't mind it as it was a good break floor from my usual max/disciplinary floor that I did work. This particular night was a smooth going night, the inmates were all locked down in bed, and were asleep so I was doing my usual checks when I heard a loud bang from what sounded like someone kicking a door. This is a tactic some inmates use to get attention so I scour the blocks looking for anyone in distress and after a thorough walk through of all the blocks no one was awake, or moving. I decided it was someone being a jackass and just kicking the door, I go back to my control room and sit down and began watching what little TV comes on at 1 in the morning then I start hearing rapid kicks coming from one of the doors again.

This of course startles me out of my chair and out into an open area between the control room and all the blocks I listen, trying to decide where the kicks are coming from, I eventually land back at that same cell from a few weeks ago, the problem being that the cell was still empty from when they were wrapping up the internal investigation of that night. The door is still rattling from being kicked and is moving outward as if someone in their was desperately trying to force it open for an escape, at this point other inmates are awake trying to figure out what's happening in their block. I decide to use my keys and open the door, the second I turn the lock and open it, silence. Just as quickly as it started it stopped, no one in the cell, no one outside but me.

I sit back in my control room trying to wrap my mind around what I'd just seen and heard, I've been on the night shift for almost 5 years at this point, I had slept just fine that day so it couldn't be exhaustion. I eventually do another round of checks, and every check after that I made a point of looking in that cell. The night after that I requested to not work that floor again, and I haven't.

Others have come forward saying that they hear kicks coming from the same cell, inmates often request to be moved out of the cell, on their forms we always get the same story. They would claim the cell door had opened, and that someone was put in with them, they could hear them set up their cot, blankets, etc. They would hear the person lay down and begin sleeping, but when ever they would roll over to see who was their new cellmate, no one was there. In some cases inmates were in the cell when the kicking began, they would sit in the bed confused and thinking it was an officer playing a prank only to look out and still see the officer in the control room, or in another block entirely.

I can't remember the name of the man who died in that cell, but whoever he was I believe he is now a permanent resident of this facility, fulfilling a different kind of sentence I dread to think about.

TL:DR Inmate dies in a cell at the jail, now is a permanent resident of said cell.

Posted by u/LordBepisMaximus42