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Later, the County and City jails were institutionally merged by the Illinois legislature, officially called the Cook County Department of Corrections, overseen by the Cook County Sheriff's Office. [5] [6] The adjacent George N. Leighton Criminal Courts Building is where the prisoners' criminal matters are heard in the Circuit Court of Cook ...
There is a security housing unit (SHU) for male prisoners, while female prisoners needing to be isolated, as of 2005, have been taken to the Cook County Jail. [7] As of 2005 women prisoners may visit the exercise room and law library once per week. [8]
The electric chair was first used at Stateville in 1949. Prior to that the electric chair was housed at the Joliet Correctional Center. [7] The state's other electrocutions were carried out at the Menard Correctional Center in Chester and at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. In July 1977, capital punishment was reinstated in Illinois.
(The Center Square) – Illinois correctional officers have reported overdose symptoms after handling inmates' mail, and now Republicans are calling to suspend or electronically scan incoming mail ...
Video visitation technology is funded in several different ways. For new facilities, the funding usually comes from traditional means, while with older facilities there are a number of options correctional facilities use. One of the most common is to use inmate welfare funds to purchase the equipment and software for video visitation.
A Cook County assistant state’s attorney concealed a decadeslong friendship that he forged with a British con man from whom he secured testimony against Jackie Wilson, prosecutors said Monday, a ...
Women needing maximum security would be relocated to the Cook County Correctional Center, and women eligible for work-release would be transferred to a new facility in Chicago with supervision twenty-four hours a day. The remaining females would be placed in a co-ed facility in Vienna, IL, a minimum-security prison. [152]
Incarcerated individuals in our county jail — Centre County Correctional Facility (CCCF) — never get outdoor recreation. Unless an inmate goes out on work release, they never get outside, period.