Jul 15, 2014, 12:28 PM ET
By ALEX PEREZ
via GOOD MORNING AMERICA
An Illinois man who was accidentally imprisoned behind a jail’s steel door for 31 hours is suing for negligence and trauma.
Farad Polk visited Cook County Jail, where his son is an inmate, on July 5. The guards told Polk to have a seat in a waiting area down the hall, Polk says.
When he entered the room – an area of the jail that was under renovation – the heavy, steel doors slammed behind him, turning the visitor into a prisoner.
For nearly a day and a half he says he tried anything to get someone’s attention. He screamed and pounded on the room’s 2-foot-thick walls, but nobody heard him.