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Article: County Jail ships off troublemakers
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 30, 2008
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A jail monitoring group is concerned that Cook County inmates have become a bumper crop for smaller counties.
Cook County is temporarily farming out troublemaking inmates to the Kankakee and Jefferson county jails.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart sees the moves as a way to boost jail security, his No. 1 priority, said his chief of staff, Bill Cunningham.
But Charles Fasano of the John Howard Society for Prison Reform said the transfers make it harder for attorneys and relatives to visit inmates, a concern the group has reported to a federal judge overseeing jail crowding.
"Moving your problems around is not considered good correctional practice," Fasano said.
Cook County has agreed to pay ...