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After a 17-month investigation by the federal government, Patrick Fitzgerald the Illinois U.S. Attorney announces that changes must be made at the jail. Harsh treatment, verbal abuse, serves beatings by correctional officers, unsanitary conditions, inadequate health care, unnecessary amputations and three suicides as stated by the federal report.

After all of that, The Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart response was that the federal government’s finds were unfair to his reform program. It was unfair and unprofessional for the federal government to send in uncover agents to find out exactly what was going on inside the jail. Why is uncovering a massive culture of corruption unfair? Cook County jail is the largest facility of it’s kind in the nation with 9,500 inmates, and it only has one dentist. That is one reform program to be proud of.

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