Police at the Montgomery County Jail said that locks on 500 cell doors opened this weekend due to a computer glitch according to The Daily Mail.
A police report showed that it took around an hour for all the locks to reset after they opened at approximately 12:20 a.m. on April 27.
Somehow no inmates who were housed in the unit attempted to leave when the doors unlocked.
"It's definitely a problem. We must find the source of it. Any security door opening in an unexpected manner constitutes a major security problem," Wallenstein explained to The Washington Post.
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation director Arthur Wallenstein said that the jail uses a computer-controlled security system.
This wasn't the first time that a glitch allowed the 500 doors to open however, as they were opened just a few days prior to the weekend incident.
"Any security door opening in an unexpected manner constitutes a major security problem," Wallenstein said.
Only the cell-door locks opened, but the housing unit doors and hallway doors were not affected. Beyond those perimeters, inmates trying to leave would have to get past officers and a wired fence.
Some of the locks were reset immediately, while it took officals over an hour to reset the rest. The locks were tested until 5:45 a.m and all of the locks were working properly by April 28.
"We handled it as a security emergency," Wallenstein said. "But nobody tried to escape."
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