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Federal Report Finds Poor Conditions at Cook County Jail

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

July 18, 2008 Federal Report Finds Poor Conditions at Cook County Jail By MONICA DAVEY NY Times CHICAGO ? People awaiting trial here at the Cook County Jail, one of the nation?s largest local jails, have endured vastly inadequate medical care, beatings at the hands of jail workers and dilapidated, dangerous building conditions often left unrepaired for months, federal authorities said on Thursday. Grim images peppered 98 pages of federal findings from a sweeping 17-month investigation about the jail, a West Side complex of buildings, the oldest of which once housed Al Capone, that is now temporary home to about 9,800 men and women. The investigation by the civil rights division of the United States Department of Justice and the office of Patrick J...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 20, 2008 (boomark / email).