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  2. Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Leader of the Gangster Disciples in Chicago; sentenced to life in state prison in 1973 for murder; convicted in 1997 of drug conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, and running a continuing criminal enterprise for leading the gang from state prison. [13] [14] Ovidio Guzmán López: 72884-748: Currently awaiting trial. Alleged leader of the ...

  3. Opioid addiction treatment in United States prisons - Wikipedia

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    In the 1980s, there was a movement to crack down on drug users and dealers by using harsher sentences. This created a rapid increase in the number of people in prison that were abusing drugs. The Department of Corrections implemented many prison-based drug treatment programs to help those with addiction, but the DOC was met with many opposers.

  4. Cook County Jail - Wikipedia

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    The song "My Long Walk to Jail" on Filter's 2002 album The Amalgamut includes a sample of an incoming call from Cook County Jail. The Cook County Prison was referenced to by Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) in the film The Blues Brothers as serving oatmeal to inmates. The Cook County Prison is where Bigger Thomas is held, in Richard Wright's Native Son.

  5. Drug overdoses nearly doubled at a privately run prison where inmates said it was “easy” to get hold of illegal substances, The Independent can reveal.. HMP Forest Bank, a category B jail in ...

  6. Richland Correctional Institution union, inmates worry safety ...

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    Former RiCI inmate says inmates subjected to drugs who aren't doing drugs. Jason West, 51, of Akron, who was released Sept. 11 after serving a three-year sentence at the minimum- and medium ...

  7. Thousands of inmates could be denied a chance at shorter ...

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    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow to potentially thousands of federal prison inmates by ruling against a convicted drug dealer seeking a shorter sentence under a 2018 law ...

  8. Abbott Laboratories - Wikipedia

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    Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois, in the United States. The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate known drugs; today, it sells medical devices, diagnostics, branded generic medicines and nutritional products.

  9. Ex jail guard going to prison for smuggling drugs, phones to ...

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    A former officer at the Benton County jail who smuggled drugs and cellphones to inmates was sentenced in federal court to three years and 10 months in prison on Tuesday.. Eric Christian, 34 ...