The Man Who Broke Into Jail

March 2, 2026

Lieutenant Thomas Conrad, a senior correctional officer, detected an anomaly in the key rings at Nashville's new central jail on December 30, 2019, just before it was set to house inmates. His attention to detail, honed during his military service in Iraq, led him to discover that one of the key rings was circular, unlike the others, which were horseshoe-shaped.

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Lieutenant Thomas Conrad is a senior correctional officer with the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office.
Conrad noticed a circular key ring among horseshoe-shaped ones on December 30, 2019.
The new central jail was preparing to accept about seven hundred inmates in two weeks.
Conrad's military background helped him identify the inconsistency.

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