Well actually to again deal with what the article say, he says she was put in a “meeting” room. Want to bet that was an interview room?
Many of us would rightly say that someone in a windowless room that was locked from the outside was in jail. So I am not yet convinced that this “meeting” room was not the equivalent of a jail cell without the required paper work. The bureaucracy might be interested in the paper work, the rest of are more interested in what happened.
I was thinking and talking to my wife about this at dinner. You have to wonder why, if someone at school calls the cops about an unruly 6 year old child, doesn’t the cop who answers the phone say something like do you own job and then hang up on them? I guess policing does not attract the kind of person who could actually mind their own business any more.
I cannot find a reference to a “meeting room.” Even if your speculation is correct, the 2 “Interview Rooms” at the Milledgeville Police Department are quite different from cells: they are in a main hallway next to the Detective offices. Each contains a small table, a chair for the interviewee, and chair(s) for the interviewing officer(s). Yes, they are windowless, but do not lock from the outside. The same rooms are used to interview both suspects and witnesses.