Posted by Blogger Name. Category:
Sheriff Tom Dart offered the trapped young man a free TOM DART Cook County Jail survival kit!
A visitor to the Cook County Jail was left feeling like a prisoner after he was trapped for 32 hours.
The visitor was processed in to the maximum security unit of the jail Saturday evening. He was there to see his son, Farad Polk, who's been locked up for nearly 13 months on heroin charges.
"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 Cara Smith, executive director of the Cook County Jail.
A preliminary sheriff's investigation finds the visitor went through a propped open door and took a seat in a visiting room that was being renovated.
Smith: "He went into that room through two steel doors, both of which shut behind him and he was locked in."
ABC7's Ben Bradley: "He had no idea he was in the wrong room?"
Smith: "He told me after about two hours he realized he was in the wrong room."
CLICK FOR MORE AND VIDEO
