Jailhouse hop

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From AP:

Officials Say Music Video Filmed in Jail

ATLANTA - A best-selling rapper filmed an unauthorized video at the Fulton County Jail while out on work release from another jail, embarrassed county officials said.

Part of a video for rapper Clifford Harris, whose stage name is T.I., was shot Thursday night, authorities said.

An Atlantic Records spokesman for the rapper did not immediately return calls for comment.

Harris' first album, "I'm Serious," was released in 2001. His second album, "Trap Muzik," was a best-seller on the charts last year.

Harris was serving jail time in neighboring Cobb County on a probation violation when he received permission to leave the jail to make the tape at the Fulton jail, Cobb County Chief Deputy Sheriff Lynda Coker said.

A spokesman for Fulton County Sheriff Jackie Barrett said she had no idea a rap video was being filmed inside the 3,200-inmate jail. Deputies apparently allowed "four or five" men up to the seventh floor with a hand-held camcorder, Barrett said. Barrett said the deputies would be disciplined.

Coker said officials in her county didn't block the request at that end because "we felt that the Fulton County Jail was not an inappropriate destination for him to be." Harris had served time at Fulton previously, officials said.

He reported back to the Cobb jail early Friday, Coker said.

Fulton County Chairwoman Karen Handel, who has long been critical of Barrett, blasted the sheriff.

"You're going to have a video crew roaming around the jail? I don't understand why that was even remotely considered," Handel said.

Last week, a monitor released a report last week saying conditions at the crowded Fulton jail were becoming increasingly dangerous and unhealthy. There have also been a string of 10 escapes or accidental releases from the jail in the last 16 months.

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It doesn't mention that the 10th of the 10 escapes occured during the filming of the rap video or that the officials denied for almost 24 hours that the video was being filmed in the first place. Top jail officials didn't know about the video at the time but the underlings felt they had the liberty to do something like this with no fear of reprisal. The Fulton County Sherriff, Jackie Barrett is under investigation for investing $7 million of county money in some sort of Floridian pyramid scheme - only $2 million has been recovered. The elected officials of Fulton County and the surrounding metro region are just a bunch of whores - getting paid and laid is all they're there for.

PS: The officials couldn't find the woman that walked out of custody that night. A citizen called in a tip for where to pick her up.

PPS: This same week, a security guard saw a criminal driving her stolen car (store videotapes show the criminal stealing the car a couple of days earlier) and she confronted, shot and killed him. That's the amount of faith people have in the Atlanta police force - if you want something done, do it yourself.