Cook County Jail

The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of Stuart Palmer, the man who wrote himself to death.

Expense account item one, $122.42 air and miscellaneous travel expenses from Hartford to Chicago and the Cook County Jail.

Well, you can make up your own mind about him, Dollar.

He's like all those writers.

Burke says she also plans to eliminate weekend overtime costs by creating new shifts to cover weekend court appearances.

But overtime continues to be a big problem at the Cook County Jail.

The overtime that we have allocated in this budget, you're the highest of our criminal justice partners.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart told commissioners his increasing overtime budget comes from jail employees calling in sick.

I've been a chaplain for years.

I'm about to do a pilot music program at Cook County Jail on one string diddly bows because that's really what came first.

either in memory or some, literally, from the slave trade through the North Atlantic to Central and South America and North America and, of course, the US South.

And this issue of lament, it's the biggest category in the Book of Psalms.

Dealing with dope myself and small time dealer.

I go through all this stuff.

So now I go into Cook County Jail and prisons all over the US, Alaska, then when we're overseas I go Iceland, Finland, Norway.

How do people get incarcerated? How do people end up in this? I'm like, they just didn't have enough to keep me.

But I want to say just one more thing real quick.

Right after, a year right after, on July... 29th of 2000, I and numerous other prisoners or detainees at the county was beaten, beaten while we were handcuffed and shackled in Cook County Jail.

Now, back then, I don't know how the signs of the times is kind of today, but back then, this was accepted.

Because we had trials, and people allowed that to happen to us just because of what we was charged with.

So I'm having the after effects of everything.

But I deal with it and I put it in God's hands.

And I'm just thankful to be alive because I know that I came close dealing with the torture by the Chicago police all those days and dealing with the torture in the Cook County Jail that I was almost dead.

You know, I've been to the hospital numerous times because of these type of situations.

And so I actually think that my major, things I did outside of college, like I also had like a podcast.

I, you know, taught writing, creative writing at the Cook County Jail.

I did things at the Institute of Politics, all the things where I was passionate about, but it wasn't like for a career.

My, you know, my major was not for a career.

Jaime says cutting hair is a skill that helped him through one of the lowest points in his life.

He spent a year in Cook County Jail on a gun charge and would cut other inmates' hair while behind bars.

Now he cuts hair for free on the street, hoping to help other people turn their lives around.

He says he's not doing it for the money.