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Kankakee Co. Sheriff Describes Security Lapses that led to Inmate Escape

Kamron Taylor escaping from the Jerome Combs Correctional Center in Kankakee County


The Kankakee County sheriff says documents showing staff conducted a count of inmates at lockdown time were falsified the night that a detainee attacked a guard and escaped.

Sheriff Tim Bukowski says investigators found no inmate count had been done. Bukowski says those who broke protocol will be disciplined.

Kamron T. Taylor, 23, escaped April 1 from the Jerome Combs Detention Center after waiting for a guard making rounds and attacking him. Wearing the guard’s uniform, Taylor fooled officers in a master control room into buzzing him through security doors before driving off in the guard’s SUV. He was captured three days later.

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