The Montgomery County Detention Facility continues to struggle with overcrowding.
Some inmates have to sleep and keep their belongings on mats in the recreational area.
Overflow at jail cries for solution County officials pine for a new facility to relieve the system-wide problem By Dave Hendrick Montgomery Advertiser Corey Thomas has been in the stir for 14 months stuck in the Montgomery County Detention Facility trustee dormitory with about 31 other men. The dorm has two toilets and two showers. No privacy, no comforts, no freedom. Thomas, convicted of theft by deception and second-degree possession of a forged instrument, is one of the lucky ones at the facility. At least he isn t in one of the grossly overcrowded cell blocks or dormitories where more than 100 of the 480 or so inmates sleep on mattresses on the floor.