Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 7, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 January 1948 — JAIL INFLATION [ARTICLE]

JAIL INFLATION

Chicago jails are bulging with first offenders and others charged with minor offenses, night and weekend courts have been proposed by a council committee to relieve congestion. The county jail, with 1.058 prisoners, has its largest population in the last decade.