Although reluctant to move the county court and jail away from downtown Chicago, the county began developing next to the Chicago House of Corrections. The facilities had a combined daily population of approximately 3, individuals in custody, which was then believed to be the largest concentration of individuals in custody in the free world.
The jail administration struggled to accommodate individuals in custody that would have served time in the penitentiary but were now being county sentenced. The responsibility of housing death row convicts sentenced was shifted from the state to the county, which only added responsibilities and complications to jail management. Deteriorating conditions called for criminal justice reform, and state legislature voted to merge the county and city jails into one correctional authority.
After over 40 years of functioning independently, the Department of Corrections combined staff and individuals in custody into one streamlined entity. Chicago Violence Jul Harvey Jun Cook County Jail May 4.
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You can get injured. You can get your teeth knocked out. You could really get hurt if you get slapped and you don't look and you don't listen and you don't try to be aware of who you're dealing with. You're not dealing with the best of people, you're dealing with people who're looking to get the best of you. And at any opportunity they will.
If you open yourself to the opportunity of getting hurt and they see it, they will use that opportunity. There's a reason why Hardiman mentions a fire, a riot, and even a massacre. It's because those things do happen. First one person threw food packaging at a television screen, while another started climbing the wall. There were no correctional officers in sight. Then several other inmates took off their uniforms and stuffed them with trash.
After that they put their uniforms in a microwave and pushed the start button. Eventually a special response team came in to restore order. Eight inmates were charged with arson, while four COs had to go to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Shortly after the video of the arson riot surfaced, another incident made the headlines at the jail when three inmates jumped two COs. They ended up sending the two to the hospital, one with a broken eye socket bone and the other was unconscious and kept over night for observation.
The three perpetrators were charged with attempted murder. As a CO you've got pure authority. Inmates must do what you say or they get punished. Of course, with this authority comes the responsibility to use it legitimately. Some abuse it, but those guys are getting caught more often now that cameras are everywhere. So what do you do when prisoners get out of hand? You don't have a firearm. Most prisons don't put firearms in the hands of COs on the floor because that puts a target on every CO's back as someone who could be jumped for a gun.
The only guns are usually rifles or shotguns in towers, far away from the prisoners. What you do carry is a radio, truncheon, handcuffs, and pepper spray. In a hand-to-hand situation, these tools are your best friends. But the best way to win in a hand-to-hand combat situation is to avoid it altogether. For a lot of inmates having someone who loves them on the outside who comes to visit once or twice a month makes a night and day difference.
Allowing a dad to see his daughter on a weekend can translate into a month of good behavior between each visit. It's 40 square feet, no lights, no air conditioning — it's 90 degrees outside, inside — your food is slipped through a hole, your toilet is a hole in the floor, and you basically have no bed — a concrete bed. It's a bad situation all the way around. There's also new technological innovations that are making your job easier too. Cameras have proven to be a game-changer.
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