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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.
Aug. 18—ADEL — More than a dozen arrests were made in Cook County Thursday as part of a crackdown on a drug trafficking network, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Most of the ...
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Cook County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,229. [1] The county seat is Adel. [2] The constitutional amendment to create the county was proposed July 30, 1918, and ratified November 5, 1918.
In 2020, Cook County Jail became the first in the country to set up a polling place inside its walls. Today, it remains one of the few locations in the U.S. where people in custody can weigh in on ...
Earlier this fall, a Cook County corrections deputy, Shadonna Jones, was charged with trying to smuggle drug-soaked paper in Cook County Jail. At least two men have reportedly died from an ...
The Cook County Courthouse in Adel, Georgia is a building built in 1939. It was designed by Atlanta architect William J. J. Chase and was built by the Ray M. Lee Company. The Public Works Administration provided 45% of the funds. It is a two-story brick building with limestone in the Stripped Classical style.
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 ...