ST. LOUIS — A woman was trapped in a St. Louis jail stairwell for more than two days after taking a wrong turn, the corrections commissioner told the Post-Dispatch Tuesday.

Commissioner Dale Glass said that the woman had been arrested and was being released from the St. Louis Justice Center at the time.

She got on an elevator on the second floor at 8:17 a.m. on June 5. She was discovered at 6:32 p.m. on June 7, he said.

Although “she appeared to be OK,” the woman was immediately seen by a nurse, he said. Staff called paramedics and gave her food and water, Glass said. He said the woman was asked if she wanted to go to the hospital. “She said, ‘No, I just want to go home,’” Glass said.

“We’re really sorry that this occurred, and we put precautions in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” Glass said. “We never had this happen before.”

Glass said the woman had been told by staff how to get out of the building: “Go down the hall to the elevator. Go down to the first floor, make a right turn. Walk out of jail; you’re free to go.”