Farad Polk Went To Visit His Son In Prison & Ends Up Locked Up Himself

[Whisper]

Farad Polk had gone to visit his jailed son, seen here, who shares the same name, only to become trapped inside the Cook County Jail in Illinois for 31 hours.​

Farad Polk went to see his son in jail, and through a series of mishaps, became a prisoner himself.
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father went to visit his son, who bears the same name, at the Cook County Jail.

The younger man has been incarcerated for several months pending his trial on drug charges. Polk was told his son had been moved to a different cell block and was told go down a hallway and make a right.
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entered a room marked "Visitors Vestibule,"
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He went through two steel doors, which slammed behind him. And that's where his incarceration began.

Jail officials were extremely apologetic about the incident that occurred last weekend. But Polk took the first legal step Thursday toward filing a lawsuit against the facility.
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court petition seeking copies of security videos, Polk said he was "deprived of food, water, bathroom facilities any contact with the outside world" during 31 hours of captivity "despite his best efforts to escape,"
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Cara Smith, the jail's executive director, said her staff was investigating Polk's ordeal and that she was very sorry about what happened to him.

"He came upon a door that was ajar and it had a sign on it that that said 'Visitors Vestibule' and believing that's where he was supposed to go ... went through two doors and both doors shut behind him. He was locked in that room,"
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He banged and yelled, but no one heard him.
"There's two very thick steel doors between him and the hallway and probably two feet of cement between the room and the hallway
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He was finally rescued about 1 a.m. Monday after he had broken off a fire sprinkler, which summoned firefighters.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/chicago-man-jailed-son-prisoner-article-1.1863504

 

[sum bitch]

Don't visitors have to sign in and sign out. It's been twenty years since I visited anyone in jail and I can't remember. Either way it sucks to be him and he didn't even get to see his son.

 

[Krystal]

Don't visitors have to sign in and sign out

We do around here. Sign in and out, show ID, metal detector, etc. Not that I know from personal experience, someone else told me, yeah, that's it, someone told me.

 

[irish-fire]

@Krystal, yes, someone told me the same thing.
Yes, it was probably horrible for him, but it was obviously an accident (of his doing apparently) and well, darnit, shit happens. I don't know, a lawsuit sounds pretty severe for what happened. 31 hours? He should have busted the fire sprinkler first. Of course, I'm not the one who endured those 31 hours, so maybe I should just shut up?