One of Smollett’s siblings received the alarming call Friday morning on the number that was given as his emergency jail contact when he was taken into custody.
Earlier in the day, Cook County sheriff’s officials confirmed Jussie Smollett had been relocated to the new cell, saying it was because medical personnel needed his prior cell for someone else. “Mr. Smollett was never restrained to a bed or anything else in the cell. The bed was never equipped with restraints,” the department said in a statement.
The Smollett spokeswoman says the caller bombarded his sibling’s number with a dozen other similar calls Friday morning. The Cook County sheriff’s office, which operates the jail, said in a statement Monday that the judge had ordered Smollett be placed in protective custody. To that end, he was assigned to housing often used for people requiring a high level of supervision or mental health care, but “it would be inaccurate and irresponsible to make any assumption about his mental or medical condition based on where he is currently housed,” the office said. The office added that Smollett was not on suicide watch.
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