Article: LAKE COUNTY BLOTTER

Article: Lake County Jail praised for reaction to ...
Post-Tribune (IN);  February 19, 2008 ;     446 words ... ... Purdue University researchers have praised Lake County Jail officials for their handling of an August 2006 ... all prisoners at the jail and diversion of Lake County arrestees to Porter County jail, among other moves that prevented the disease ...

Article: Lake County brothers purchase old Porter ...
Post-Tribune (IN);  November 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... PRINTED VERSION The Dovellos brothers haven't decided just why they want the old Porter County Jail. But that didn't stop them from buying it. The Lake County businessmen bid $320,000 in Wednesday's auction of the 35,000-square-foot ...

Article: New Lake County jail mingles guards, cons
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 1, 1988 ;     621 words ... ... to paraphrase poet Richard Lovelace. Lake County corrections officials agree. The new county jail, under construction in Waukegan, will ... to open this fall, will be the first county jail in Illinois to use "direct supervision ...

Article: RELIGION BEHIND BARS | INMATES TURN TO GOD | MUSLIM INEQUALITY | ...
News-Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  December 25, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... so many privileges granted to Lake County Jail inmates. Whatever the inmates ... Hermann has a good feel for the Lake County Jail scene, since he previously ... Muslims who are being held in the Lake County Jail said they believe they should ...

Article: Lake County Jail sweep turns up empty
News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  May 25, 2007 ;     303 words ... ... REPORT WAUKEGAN - Members of the Lake County Sheriff's Office Correctional ... nine K-9 officers from across Lake County completed a contraband sweep of the Lake County Jail on Thursday. Sheriff Mark Curran ...

Article: THREE INMATES BEATEN, ONE RAPED IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS AT ...
Post-Tribune (IN);  September 5, 1996 ;     325 words ... ... PRINTED VERSION. JAIL ***ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION*** Lake County police said Wednesday an inmate in the county jail reported he was gang raped during the weekend. A Hammond man being held in the lockup on ...

Article: LAKE COUNTY JAIL'S RECORD INDICATES ...
Post-Tribune (IN);  August 22, 1995 ;     553 words ... ... VERSION. COUNTERPOINT In response to your Aug. 16 editorial regarding the suicide of a Lake County Jail inmate: The last suicide in the Lake County Jail occurred in 1988. Since then, over 65,000 inmates have been processed through our detention ...