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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.
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 ...
CHICAGO — The family of an inmate brutalized inside Cook County Jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Office.Attorneys representing the family of Johnny Hendrix, beaten ...
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 ...
Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician B.B. King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail in Chicago.Agreeing to a request by jail warden Winston Moore, King and his band performed for an audience of 2,117 prisoners, most of whom were young black men.
The Cook County Department of Corrections, also known as the Cook County Jail, is the largest single-site jail in the nation. The Cook County Juvenile Detention Center, under the authority of the Chief Judge of the court, is the first juvenile center in the nation and one of the largest in the nation. The Cook County Law Library is the second ...
A program that debuted last month in Cook County Jail has people accusing officials of coddling the inmates. The Tribune reports that other inmates in the Chicago facility make the pies, then ...
The Cook County Sheriff's Police Department has over 500 state certified law enforcement officers charged with patrolling unincorporated areas of Cook County as well as assisting suburban police departments with police operations including, but not limited to, detective and crime scene investigator (CSI) services, narcotics interdiction, bomb detection and disposal, vice operations, street ...