#maximum-security

Father who was accidentally locked in a maximum-security prison cell awarded $600,000

A father accidentally locked inside a maximum-security prison cell for 32 hours was awarded a $600,000 settlement.

Farad Polk was visiting his son, also named Farad Polk, in a Cook County Jail in Chicago when he was told by an employee to take a turn down a hallway and he entered what he thought was a visiting area. However it turned out to be a small room for people to visit the most dangerous…