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IL: Justice Department Announces Agreement with Cook County Jail to Remedy Violations and Ensure Constitutional Rights of Prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 13, 2010 Justice Department Announces Comprehensive, Cooperative Agreement with Cook County, Illinois, Board and Sheriff to Remedy Violations and Ensure Constitutional Rights of Inmates at Cook County Jail WASHINGTON ? The United States has entered into a comprehensive, cooperative agreement with Cook County, Ill., and the Cook County Sheriff that resolves previous findings of unconstitutional conditions at the Cook County Jail, the Justice Department announced today. The agreement resolves the United States? investigation, which began in 2007 and concluded in 2008, that the jail systematically violated inmates? constitutional rights by the use of excessive force by staff, the failure to protect inmates from harm by fellow inmates, inadequate medical and mental health care, and a lack of adequate fire safety and sanitation...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 19, 2010 (boomark / email).