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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)
From at least the early 1960s, the prison included a reception and classification center for northern Illinois, holding new prisoners for less than a month before their final assignments and processing over 20,000 a year. In addition to the prisoners temporarily held in the R&C unit, Joliet maintained a large population of permanent inmates.
The Ford Heights Four were exonerated and freed in 1996. [8] Robinson, Johnson and Rodriguez were sentenced to life in prison. [9] [10] Johnson's sentence was later reduced to 65 years. [11] The Ford Heights Four received $36 million in 1999 in civil rights damages from Cook County - the largest settlement in US history at the time. [12]
Cassandra Greer-Lee lost her husband, Nickolas Lee, to COVID-19 in April 2020 while he was incarcerated in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S. Lee was just the ...
The Transcript obtained jail inspection reports from May 2022 and January 2023, which found jail staff failed to check or document checks on inmates at risk of suicide and ...
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It was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 9, 1993. [4] In 1929, the Criminal Courts left the 54 West Hubbard Street location as did the Cook County Jail, and the building was then occupied by the Chicago Board of Health and other city agencies. After poor alterations and years of neglect, the building was acquired by a private developer ...
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