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Three Guards Arrested in One Week at Chicago Jail
Loaded on May 2, 2023
by Chuck Sharman
by Chuck Sharman
Three guards at the Cook County Jail in Chicago were arrested in separate violent incidents during one week in April 2023. The jail recorded its seventh detainee death of the year the month before, one from a fatal beating, the other a fatal overdose. A …
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