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  2. The U.N. calls restraint chairs torture. Illinois jails use ...

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    The Illinois County Jail Standards, which establish minimum rules for how to run a jail and treat detainees, say little about the use of restraint chairs and largely defer to a jail's own policy ...

  3. Illinois Compiled Statutes - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The compilation organizes the general Acts of Illinois into 67 chapters arranged within 9 major topic areas. [3] The ILCS took effect in 1993, replacing the previous numbering scheme generally known as the Illinois Revised Statutes (Ill. Rev. Stat.), the latest of which had been adopted in 1874 but appended by private publishers since. [3]

  4. Drunk driving in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1937 WPA drunk driving poster. New Jersey enacted the first law that specifically criminalized driving an automobile while intoxicated, in 1906. The New Jersey statute provided that "[n]o intoxicated person shall drive a motor vehicle." Violation of this provision was punishable by a fine of up to $500, or a term of up to 60 days in county jail ...

  5. Scott v. Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Scott v. Illinois, 440 U.S. 367 (1979), was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. In Scott, the Court decided whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments required Illinois to provide Scott with trial counsel. To emphasize the importance of court-appointed counsel, the Court opined, "[T]he interest protected by the right to ...

  6. How To Report On Jail Deaths - The Huffington Post

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    There may be one county jail in your area but multiple police lockups. Contact the local sheriff and police departments to determine how many facilities hold new detainees, even if it's only for 24 to 72 hours. If a local jail doesn't send out press releases about deaths — many don't — file public records requests to obtain unreported ...

  7. The jail was issued a noncompliance notice from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards related to identification. Jail or Agency: Hunt County Criminal Justice Center; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: 3/1/2016; Date of death: 6/13/2016; Age at death: 36; Sources: Texas Commission on Jail Standards, www.heraldbanner.com

  8. The report highlights data from the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts showing plaintiffs filed 54,544 new civil cases each seeking over $50,000 in the Cook County Circuit Court in 2022 ...

  9. Law of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Illinois Appellate Court decisions from before 1935 are not binding. [13] Illinois Circuit Court decisions are not published, [14] but jury verdicts and settlements are published in the monthly Illinois Jury Verdict Reporter, with regular updates from the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, and the weekly Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter. [15]