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2. Cook County Jail - Wikipedia

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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.

3. College students, inmates and a nun: A unique book club meets ...

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   Classes are held at both the Cook County Jail and the Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum security men’s prison about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from Chicago. During book club, security ...

4. Pay-to-stay (imprisonment) - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, pay-to-stay is the practice of charging prisoners for their accommodation in jails.The practice is controversial and can result in large debts being accumulated by prisoners who are then unable to repay the debt following their release, preventing them from successfully reintegrating in society once released.

5. Cook County Sheriff's Office - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Family of inmate beaten to death at Cook County Jail files ...

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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 ...

7. Cook County Jail in Chicago under fire for inmate deaths ...

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   The most recent comprehensive report on Cook County Jail inmate mortality rates, published in 2007 in the Journal of Urban Health, found that from 1995 to 2004, 178 inmates died in the jail, an ...

8. The Bail Project - Wikipedia

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   Rawshawn Gaston-Anderson, a serial criminal who was arrested for burglary and theft, was released from jail after The Bail Project paid his $3,000 bail. Less than a week after Gaston-Anderson was released from the Las Vegas jail, he shot a waiter, Chengyan Wang, eleven times. Wang survived the attack and is currently suing The Bail Project for ...

9. Cook County Jail expands program to save shelter dogs, aid ...

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