This is a Problem Why?

Just call it Toddler's Gladiator School:

• Accused murderers, robbers and rapists in Cook County Jail's oldest maximum-security complex often use toothpaste caps and toilet paper to jam their cell doors and sneak out.

  Sometimes, they don't even need to resort to such tricks. The aging locks in the doors malfunction on their own.

  "Some of them are so bad they can literally slide the door, give the door a little jiggle, and it will slide open," a Cook County sheriff's correctional officer said.

As long as the last door in the wall is functioning properly, we have a hard time generating any sort of sympathy for murderers, robbers and rapists. Besides, with all the open cells and beds Dart was talking about this past summer, they should be able to close Division I and raze the building, right?