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When the two facilities began to be located together, they first gained the reputation as the 'largest concentration of inmates in the free world.' 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 ...
Pinckneyville Correctional Center: 2 – Secure Medium: 2,274 Western Illinois Correctional Center: 2 – Secure Medium: 1,871 Big Muddy River Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 1,598 Danville Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 1,864 Illinois River Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 2,094 Menard Medium Security Unit: 3 – High ...
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago (MCC Chicago) is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences.
Cook County to request pretrial detention in violent cases Cook County's new state's attorney has announced a change to the county's policy involving the controversial SAFE-T Act. Eileen O'Neill ...
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.
At least 60 incarcerated people have died in Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S., since 2017, according to the jail’s data. For Cook County officials, these numbers ...
Cook County Sheriff's Department of Corrections is one of the largest single-site pre-trial holding facilities in the world. Deputy Sheriff's assigned to Department of Corrections are responsible for the security of more than 9,000 detainees, many of whom are violent offenders awaiting trial in the criminal court system.
(The Center Square) – The new Cook County state’s attorney is setting policy for pretrial detention and retail thefts. After officially being sworn in to replace Kim Foxx, Eileen O’Neill ...