South Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois, is operated by the Sheriff of Cook County. It was one of three sites in which executions were cook county jail out by electrocution in Illinois.
Between 1928 and 1962, the electric chair was used 67 times at the jail, including the state’s last electrocution, that of James Duke, on August 24, 1962. United States occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. And as of 26 July 2022, there has been one case of monkeypox in the prison with a inmate testing positive for the virus which is unlikely to spread across the prison. Unnecessarily long waiting time for discharge upon payment of bond, completion of sentence, or charges being dropped. Wait times are currently routinely in excess of 8 hours, nearly all of which is spent with many inmates packed into tiny cells. The women’s section of the former Cook County jail near Hubbard Street is the setting used for the musical Chicago, as well as its 2002 film adaptation.
King’s Live in Cook County Jail album features a live recording of a concert that he performed for the jail’s inmates on September 10, 1970. The song “My Long Walk to Jail” on Filter’s 2002 album The Amalgamut includes a sample of an incoming call from Cook County Jail. The Blues Brothers as serving oatmeal to inmates. The Cook County Prison is where Bigger Thomas is held, in Richard Wright’s Native Son.