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    The Cook County Jail, located on 96 acres (39 hectares) in South Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois, is operated by the Sheriff of Cook County. It is sometimes...
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  • Live in Cook County Jail is a 1971 live album by American blues musician B.B. King, recorded on September 10, 1970, in Cook County Jail in Chicago. Agreeing...
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    detainee population of the Cook County Jail, transporting prisoners and overseeing offender rehabilitation programs. The Cook County Sheriff's Office is carved...
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    comedian, Hines began working as a correctional officer at Chicago's Cook County Jail in 1994, at the age of 24. He quit the job in 2003 when he was cast...
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  • Concert: Friday the 13th – Cook County Jail is a live split album recorded at Cook County Jail in October 1972 featuring performances by jazz organist...
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    the cell blocks of the Cook County Jail, and a hanging gallows for prisoners sentenced to death. During the 1920s the attached jail (which was behind the...
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    Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County...
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  • Roxie, in a fit of anger, confesses herself. She is booked into the Cook County Jail for holding; terrified of her potential fate, Jake, a crime reporter...
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  • Men's Central Jail is a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department county jail for men in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States. Built...
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    government of Harris County, Texas maintains its main jail complex in Downtown Houston, Texas. The complex, operated by the Harris County Sheriff's Office...
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  • followed by a live album Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail, recorded at the Cook County Jail in Chicago in 1972. Levy performed as a member of...
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    Morelli's request. Morelli was executed in the electric chair in the Cook County Jail at 12:08 a.m. on November 26, 1949, and pronounced dead two minutes...
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  • confesses and is arrested. She is sent to the women's block in the Cook County Jail, where several women accused of killing their lovers are held ("Cell...
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  • Jeanette Sliwinski (category People from Parmer County, Texas)
    Evanston before being transferred to the Cermak Health Services in the Cook County Jail. She was later charged with three counts of first-degree murder and...
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  • 20 - labor racketeer John "Smiling Jack" O'Brien is hanged in the Cook County Jail for the killing of Chicago police officer Richard Burke the previous...
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  • results were "inconclusive." On July 2, 1946, he was transferred to the Cook County Jail, where he was placed in the infirmary to recover. After the sodium...
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    Evelyn Frechette (category People from Menominee County, Wisconsin)
    to Patricia Young. Their marriage ceremonies were conducted at the Cook County Jail by Chaplain E. N. Ware. Spark and Cherrington entered Leavenworth on...
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    nickname, which an inmate gave him during his incarceration period in Cook County Jail from 2014 to 2017. The record was handled by the rapper's closest collaborators...
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  • Attorney Martin Harrison declaring she faces execution by hanging. At Cook County Jail, Roxie is sent to Murderess' Row, supervised by the corrupt Matron...
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  • on 24 counts Six of the seven defendants remanded to jail received haircuts in the Cook County Jail; John Kifner of The New York Times reports that David...
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  • Live versions of the song were included on King's albums Live in Cook County Jail (1971), Bobby Bland and B.B. King Together Again...Live (1976), and...
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    Peter M. Hoffman (category Members of the Cook County Board of Commissioners)
    an American politician who served as Cook County Sheriff, Cook County Coroner, and as a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. His political...
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  • publishing a newsletter called Hermes. From Cook County Jail, Norman sent out three newsletters using the jail's printing press, claiming that the Delta Project...
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  • the London incident. She was detained at the Cook County Jail until 2020, when she was released from jail as part of initiatives to prevent the transmission...
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    and sentenced to death. He was executed in the electric chair at the Cook County Jail on June 16, 1939. List of serial killers in the United States List...
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  • and lyrics written by Fred Ebb. At the Cook County Jail women's annex, six women explain their presence in the jail, all of whom stand accused of killing...
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  • compensation and punitive damages after being beaten by a Sheriff's deputy in Cook County Jail in May 2002. He suffered facial fractures that required surgery. The...
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    Richard Speck (category People from Warren County, Illinois)
    trial, Speck participated in twice-weekly sessions with part-time Cook County Jail psychiatrist, Dr. Marvin Ziporyn. These continued after Speck's transfer...
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    1932, Ness was among the federal agents who took Capone from the Cook County Jail to Dearborn Station, where he boarded the Dixie Flyer to the Atlanta...
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    delays List of jail facilities in New York City Men's Central Jail (Los Angeles) Twin Towers Correctional Facility (Los Angeles) Cook County Jail (Chicago)...
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