BATON ROUGE -- Over the past several days, WBRZ has received several calls and emails from concerned citizens saying female inmates at the EBR Parish Prison are allegedly being moved to the men's sections.

All of these claims also say that the conditions are "horrid" with allegations of mice and mold.

The city-parish, which is responsible for the maintenance of the facility, denies the claims about the female inmates. The EBR Sheriff's Office and EBR Metro Councilman Darryl Hurst agreed.

"Everything you're probably hearing about the incidents is not all true. What I heard is that they had to separate people for safety reasons and put them in two different parts of the jail," Hurst said.

The Sheriff's Office told WBRZ that it often shuffles inmates throughout the facility in order for r

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