Inmate Hospitalized After Drinking Toilet Cleaner
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Ouachita County jailers say an inmate is
hospitalized after drinking toilet cleaner.
Officials said Hutson Burks, who faces a rape charge, drank the
cleaning fluid after a weekend escape attempt failed. He is in the
Ouachita County Medical Center.
Jailers said Burks was angry about being placed in a lockdown
cell Sunday because he set fire to his jail uniform. Ouachita
County Sheriff Paul Lucas said Burks hoped to force an evacuation
of the jail so he could escape.
While in the lockdown cell, Burks threatened to drink the
cleaner if his privileges were not reinstated. When officers
declined to do that, he drank the fluid and was taken to the
hospital.
After he was released from the hospital, he refused to follow
the physician`s orders, had severe abdominal pains and was
readmitted at the hospital.
