Monday, July 14, 2008

Lex jail head circles wagons, shoots "wounded"

As a criminal trial with an August 18 start date threatens to shine unwanted light on his own checkered past, Fayette County Detention Center Director Ron Bishop is trying to intimidate potential witnesses by threatening to fire employees who aren't "on the team" and charging them with abuse of the facility's vague employee leave policy, jail employees say.

That's interesting because when Bishop himself was testifying in his own civil suit in Louisville in July of 2006, jail records show he was on the clock back in Lexington.

This isn't the first time Ron Bishop thought the rules for everyone else didn't apply to him.

All the key players in Lexington had no comment.