The incident happened around 3 a.m. Thursday, June 12, when a portion of the jail’s brick facade—measuring approximately 8 feet by 100 feet—detached from the building, according to Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple.
Photos shared by Apple on Facebook show piles of fallen red bricks lining the grass along the building's exterior.
Though the compromised area was not accessible to inmates, officials opted to move them as a precaution while engineers and construction teams assessed the damage. No inmates or jail staff were injured in the collapse.
The cause of the structural failure is under investigation.
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