A third former inmate has filed suit against the city of St. Louis and the sheriff's office — alleging that he too was held in the city's Workhouse for days after he should have been released.Attorney Elad Gross filed the lawsuit on behalf of Kenneth Dickerson Jr. The 41-year-old St. Louis resident was serving a one-year sentence on a pair of misdemeanors when his release date in April 2017 came and went. He began to agitate, telling every corrections officer who passed his cell that he needed to be let out.
But, the suit says, they not only failed to act on his complaints, but one lieutenant actually threatened to put him in “the hole,” or isolated confinement, if he kept pushing his case.…