May 18, 2009- Daily News Tribune - By Maureen Boyle
For 23 hours a day, the most dangerous and notorious inmates — including Keith Luke — are clamped down in Plymouth County’s ‘jail within a jail’
John Hickey peers from the darkened second-floor post overlooking Unit G, the maximum security unit at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility.
There the Plymouth County sheriff’s department captain has a clear view of the four, two-tiered cellblock clusters.
Up to 117 prisoners are locked away 23 hours a day in this unit, some so dangerous they must be shackled each time they leave a cell.
Some are in protective custody. Some did something wrong in another jail unit. Some are just too dangerous or infamous to be anywhere else.
“It is a jail within a jail,” Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph D. McDonald Jr. said.
