Authors: Steve Bogira
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Still 80 percent:
Ten percent of the prisoners sent from Cook County in 2003 were Hispanic and 9 percent were white, according to the IDOC.
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Inmates in tents:
“Tents ready for possible jail overflow,”
Chicago Tribune
, April 17, 2002.
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Fifteen hundred inmates:
“Justice is pushing inmates to the floor,”
Arlington Heights Daily Herald
, June 23, 2002.
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“Not distracted”; “dehumanizing”; time saved:
Joy Bergmann, “Court TV,”
Chicago Reader
, March 26, 1999.