Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician B.B. King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail in Chicago.Agreeing to a request by jail warden Winston Moore, King and his band performed for an audience of 2,117 prisoners, most of whom were young black men.
The Cook County Sheriff is the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, heading the Cook County Sheriff's Office. Office description
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the jail doesn't just teach about democracy, it offers direct access to it. Detainees can cast their ballots in a space of reflection and redemption: the chapel.
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 ...
The post-Great Chicago Fire Cook County Criminal Courthouse (1874 - 1892), which was replaced by the present structure at the same site.The then existing jail can be seen, in part, at right Architectural sketch of the building by its architect, Otto H. Matz, published in The Inland Architect and News Record in March 1893.