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The handcuff key was hanging on a chain around her neck. She walked into the security perimeter of the visiting room and tucked the chain inside her blouse. The officer directed her to empty her pockets and go through the metal detector. She cleared; she knew she would because a day earlier she walked through with a small metal paper clip on the chain without setting off the alarms. She didn’t know much about metal detectors but conducted the experiment after watching a child with metal buckles on his shoes clear a week earlier.

Now all she needed to do was slip the cuff key off the chain and give it to her boyfriend. That would be the easy part — it was up to him to take it in the rest of the way. Her boyfriend had a plan. His buddy worked in the visiting room, cleaning it after closing time each day. An officer checked on him as he worked, but the buddy was confident he could get the piece to him without a problem. He said he’s always strip-searched, but the officers rarely looked in his bucket of cleaning supplies — even when they did, typically not closely. Putting the used toilet brush across the top would assure only a cursory glance, so he agreed to pick up the cuff key and bring it out with his cleaning supplies.

About an hour into her visit, she went in the restroom and slipped the key off the chain around her neck and placed it inside the hollow section of a spring-loaded toilet paper holder. She changed the toilet paper to a full roll; there was only thirty minutes left for visiting hours, so it was unlikely the paper would be changed again. She returned to her visit but kept one eye on the restroom. Everything worked as planned and within two hours the cuff key was in the hands of her boyfriend. He was scheduled to be taken to an outside hospital and was hoping to launch his escape attempt during the transport, when there would only be two officers and he had the cover of the community on his side.

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