An inmate at Cook County Jail died last week after a fire inside his cell, sheriff’s officials said.
Around 7:15 p.m. Thursday, correctional officers in the residential treatment unit of the jail responded to a fire inside a cell, a spokesperson for the Cook County Sheriff’s office said.
Officers removed the two inmates from the cell and put out the fire. While both men were able to walk out of the cell under their own power, one of the inmates, Martinez Duncan, became unresponsive, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead…