> Illegal Immigrant, Left in Cell, Goes 4 Days With No Food or Water
>
> A woman was locked for four days in a tiny holding cell in a northern
> Arkansas courthouse, forgotten by the authorities and left without
> food or water, the local Sheriff's Department said Tuesday.
>
> The woman, Adriana Torres-Flores, 38, a longtime illegal immigrant
> from Mexico, slept on the floor with only a shoe for a pillow, and
> with nothing to drink except her own urine, The Arkansas Democrat-
> Gazette reported. There was no bathroom in the cell.
>
> A bailiff had apparently forgotten that he placed Ms. Torres-Flores, a
> mother of three, in the cell last Thursday, and simply left her in the
> empty courthouse, in Fayetteville, over the weekend, said the chief
> deputy of the Washington County Sheriff's Department, Jay Cantrell. A
> snowstorm meant that there were far fewer people than usual working at
> the courthouse on Friday.
>
> "He just flat forgot about her," Mr. Cantrell said, adding that the ...

> Illegal Immigrant, Left in Cell, Goes 4 Days With No Food or Water
>
> A woman was locked for four days in a tiny holding cell in a northern
> Arkansas courthouse, forgotten by the authorities and left without
> food or water, the local Sheriff's Department said Tuesday.
>
> The woman, Adriana Torres-Flores, 38, a longtime illegal immigrant
> from Mexico, slept on the floor with only a shoe for a pillow, and
> with nothing to drink except her own urine, The Arkansas Democrat-
> Gazette reported. There was no bathroom in the cell.
>
> A bailiff had apparently forgotten that he placed Ms. Torres-Flores, a
> mother of three, in the cell last Thursday, and simply left her in the
> empty courthouse, in Fayetteville, over the weekend, said the chief
> deputy of the Washington County Sheriff's Department, Jay Cantrell. A
> snowstorm meant that there were far fewer people than usual working at
> the courthouse on Friday. ...