Visitor trapped in jail for more than 30 hours
Visitor trapped in jail for more than 30 hours

Visitor trapped in jail for more than 30 hours, Report

A visitor to Chicago’s Cook County Jail was trapped inside for about 30 hours over the July Fourth weekend.

Local reports say he was visiting his son when he went into a room that wasn’t being used and the door closed and locked behind him.

Luckily, the man broke a fire sprinkler head and firefighters discovered him.

“He was processed in and told to go down the hall and stay to the right. And he did that and encountered a visiting room for a whole other unit in our maximum security division,” said Executive Director of the Cook County Jail Cara Smith. “He went into that room through two steel doors, both of which shut behind him and he was locked in.”

She says the man told her it took him two hours to realize he was in the wrong room.

The Chicago Fire Department was alerted Monday morning and were able to get him out of the room.

Smith says they will get to the bottom of this.They want to know why no one noticed the man didn’t check out.

Agencies/Canadajournal




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