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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 ...
But others have seen increases, possibly because with the elimination of bail, people can no longer pay their way out of jail. In Lake County, the jail population decreased from 686 people on ...
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 ...
On November 24, 2015, the same day the video was released, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez announced that Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder, and Van Dyke turned himself in to authorities. [74] He was initially held without bail at Cook County Jail for six days.
(The Center Square) – Cook County is at No. 6 on the Americans for Tort Reform Judicial Hellholes list. ATR has been publishing the annual Judicial Hellholes list for more than 20 years.
Because of this, he spent a total of nine years and ten months detained at the Cook County Jail, more than any other inmate in the history of Illinois. [ 15 ] On December 10, 2009, by jury verdict, he was found guilty on all counts and given a life imprisonment sentence without the chance of parole. [ 16 ]
B.B. King's Live in Cook County Jail album features a live recording of a concert that he performed for the jail's inmates on September 10, 1970. A live album Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail featuring performances by jazz musicians Jimmy McGriff and Lucky Thompson was released on the Groove Merchant label in 1973)
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 ...