Interview with Rachel, Jason, Kat, JM Advice, Brian, DavidP, keke, Teabag, Crystal, Edward, isaac, Lucky and Laydie
JM: How long was your sentencing for? Rachel: 6 years Jason: None..I was held in cook county for about 3
days, in the worst conditions I have ever seen..
My name was Mother F*er, ( sorry for the
profanity) but this is what I was called by
EVERY GUARD. Male or Female. I was complyed with
every reguest as a gentle with respect to
everyone. Kat: Thirty Days there but charges were dropped and I
was released after three days because I paid off
bad checks. JM Advice: Following conviction the judge may either make a decision on
the spot or require a PSI (pre-sentence investigation). A PSI is a
investigative process aimed at determining the optimal
incarceration time frame for you and your crime. They will
consider various things such as your involvement in the crime,
your overall threat to the community and the impact of your
crime(s) on victims.
If you are doing time in the Cook County Jail you usually won't
receive a sentence for more than a year meaning that people
seldom serve more than six months consecutively. If you are
sentenced on multiple charges pay attention carefully to whether
your sentences will run "consecutively" or "concurrently." If they
run consecutively you can add the sentences together to find out
your total sentence - if they are concurrent you will only actually
serve one sentence.
So, for instance, if you receive a sentence of a year each on four
different charges and they run consecutively you will serve four
years (two years with time off). If you receive the same charges
but they run concurrently you will serve a total of one year (in
theory you are serving all of the sentences at the same time).
Brian: Well, he pretty much told me to return at a later date to clear
everything I needed to clear in order to get my license current
again. The whole point of me going to jail was because my
license was suspended, because there were some fees that I
didn't pay off that I needed to clear and pay in order to get my
license current again. For my situation, it was pretty simple. The
judge said, "Just take care of those fees and come back." He
scheduled me to come back like two weeks later. DavidP: Six months was the sentence, and I served half. keke: 4 months
Teabag: I have been in CCDOC 12+ times (cant remember
exact amt. of times) all times I was fighting
cases in court. Longest stay in CCDOC was 18
months back in 2001 Crystal: Two years. Edward: 6 Months for contempt of court.no day for day
just 6 months isaac: 60 days Lucky: 60 days county time.
JM: Did you spend time in a holding cell after your sentencing? If so, what was that like? Rachel: i felt sick. Jason: Yes Hour`s and Hour`s, with people trying to
steal my under garments, shoe , socks,
eyeglasses. I went hours without any food are
water, I was urinated on threatened to be raped,
beat up, and many other discusting situations.
My personal items when I was booked in were
STOLEN, when I was handing over my cash and
wallet I had Chinese currency on me from my
business trip. The guard told me he wanted it to
keep, and that I was not going to get it back
anyway. I also had 300.00 in US currency that
was never returned to me.. Kat: Yes. Horrible. NO running water -- thirty
women in room -- no food or water. Gross and
disgusting floor and walls. JM Advice: Be prepared to spend a lot of time in holding cells if you are
going through sentencing at the Cook County Jail. You will
probably be put in handcuffs and possibly shackles - the court
uses different holding cells for different classes of offenders.
Feel free to talk to the other people in the holding cells, but
don't discuss your case - anything you talk about may be used
against you in the courtroom later. Brian: Yeah, for another two or three hours. DavidP: Oh yeah. 24 hours. I actually went into the jail proper, and was
in a holding area. I may have gone into two different holding
cells, and the whole intake process took roughly 24 hours.
You're in a holding cell for a while, and then you go into another
holding cell, and then they take you into intake, meaning they
take your information, your fingerprints, and a nurse checks you
for any illnesses or diseases or anything else, and you go
through that. There's about six or eight different steps. After
you go through that, you get put back into a holding cell. Once I
got out of that holding cell, I got put into the jail proper. From
the time I left the courtroom until I got into the jail cell where I
was permanently housed was roughly 24 hours. keke: yes in the holding cell for 18 hours you get 6
hours out a day that is some horriable sh* and
its inhuman Teabag: I have spent time 7 different times in my cell
after sentencing. For each of my 7 felony
convictions. Crystal: In CCDOC you constantly are placed in holding
cells, men like sardines packed in and women less
crowded. They may be only one water fountain and
it may not work. Try to drink as much water as
possible before being taken to the holding tanks
between the jail and courtroom. You may be there
all day with little to drink except 8 oz of
KookAid if the fountain doesn't work. If you are
in an outlying courtroom you will be transported
there between 7-9 a.m. and returned between 4 and
6 p.m. If you are at 26th and California
criminal courtrooms you may spend less time in
holding cells. The cells are dirty, not having
been properly cleaned in decades with mold and
inches of dust hanging down off the ventilation
gratings. The toilets may not work and the it
stinks and is in the basement in general. 555
Harrison is newer and has nicer holding cells
with plexiglass and electronic doors as do most
of the outlying courthouses. 26th and California
main criminal felony court has disgusting and
foul holding cells behind courtroom and between
courthouse and jail. You go through two sets of
holding cells to get from jail to behind
courtroom holding cells. A few months ago due to
the fact that I won a mandmus against the State
and both a State agency and the feds are
investigating abuse, torture, rape, medical
neglect, etc. at the jail, the holding cells were
suddenly cleaned and toilets and fountains fixed.
They now smell like antiseptic and are much more
less of a health risk and place where infections
are spread. They have a major problem with the
spread of staph infections so wash your hands
with at least water but better with soap whenever
possible. Edward: It was Filthy,cramped.The correction officers
really like to screw with you.I asked a question
about whats going on cause i never been to Jail
before and one Officer got into my face and was
screaming at me also it was 9 hours before I
started the inprocessing. isaac: no Lucky: Yeah, waiting to go back to my division. Laydie: my time spent was small overnight. the guards
kept good watch over the inmates.
under the inmate locater if under next court date it says sens, does that mean sentenced? and if so how can i find out what or how long the sentence is?
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I am trying to find out the same thing. My sone is in there and has not called me again since his first day in there and that REALLY worries me. He has no problem calling adn I set it up for him to call. So he goes to court tomorrow and how will I know what the out come is if he doesn't call and there is no way to get ahuman being on the phone? I am Texas and can't og visit him. VERY FRuUSTRATING
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My dad is going in for two months. He is 66 years old and not in great health. He has to turnhimself in next week. What can he expect to prepare himself?
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Try placing many many calls to put him in div 4 or Cermak... If his health is bad, they'll keep him in cermak, usually. But keep calling, dont let a dead end stop you. Good Luck
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