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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.
There is a security housing unit (SHU) for male prisoners, while female prisoners needing to be isolated, as of 2005, have been taken to the Cook County Jail. [7] As of 2005 women prisoners may visit the exercise room and law library once per week. [8]
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 ...
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 evidence services, narcotics interdiction, bomb detection and disposal, vice operations, street crimes suppression and ...
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 ...
All of this has translated to a 14% decline in the jail population in Cook County. There are similar trends elsewhere. Researchers at Loyola University Chicago studied 89 counties in the state and ...
The Northern Reception Center (NRC), accepts incoming prisoners from the county jails in the northern two-thirds of the state. [ citation needed ] Stateville is located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Joliet, Illinois (16830 IL Route 53 Crest Hill, IL 60403; (815) 727-3607), on a site of over 2,200 acres (8.9 km 2 ), of which 64 acres (26 ha) are ...
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 ...