In "progressive" Cook County's budget, [the Constitutional right to] public defense receives just 45% of $$ spent on prosecution and 14% of $$ spent on the sheriff. Remember this context every time you see a feel-good report about prosecution and jail. chicagoreader.com/news/reader-...
The Cook County jail’s new $7 million visitation centerCook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itselfchicagoreader.com