Twin Towers Correctional Facility

[3] Despite the state-of-the-art security systems built into the jail, inmate Kevin Jerome Pullum walked out of an employee exit on July 6, 2001, two hours after being convicted of attempted murder, and remained at large for eighteen days before he was apprehended within a mile of the jail.

Pullum used a newspaper photograph of actor Eddie Murphy to alter an identification badge he used in the escape.

[4] In May 2013, along with the adjacent Men's Central Jail, Twin Towers ranked as one of the ten worst County Jails in the United States, based on reporting in Mother Jones, which noted the large number of complaints received by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Mother Jones described the facility as "overflowing" and the deputies as prone to attacking inmates "unprovoked" or for "the slightest infractions".

[5] The jail has also come under fire from human rights advocates as a central focus in the use of psychiatric drugs to control prisoners.