The One Hundred and One County Jails of Illinois and Why They Ought to Be Abolished (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Abbott, Edith

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ISBN 10: 0282997482 ISBN 13: 9780282997489

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The Adams County Jail, inspected July 28, 1915. Is in the basement of the courthouse. The main jail room is 44 by 68 feet in dimensions. It is lighted by windows at the south and north ends. The two cell blocks con tain fourteen cells each. The cells of each block are placed back to back. No air can circulate through them as the solid stone walls shut off even the small amount that enters through the north and south windows. Each cell contains a toilet and two bunks. The cells are very dark. Neither air nor light can enter them.

The jail is dark, insanitary and ill - ventilated. Separation of different classes of prisoners is impossible.

Alexander County Jail, inspected April 23, 1915, connues its prisoners in a dungeon in the courthouse basement. So dark is the place that electric lights must burn all day. The main prison is a small room, dark, damp, ill-smelling. The cage has four cells, two on each side of a latticed corridor. The air was heavy with the exhalations of fourteen pairs of lungs and reeked with the odors of crowded, unwashed bodies.

Fourteen men were crowded in a space where there was not enough oxygen for one. The electric lights do not light the cells but shine dimly in the cage. The men's faces are almost indistinguishable, except when directly beneath the lights.

Buckets and toilets provide the only sanitary facilities and they are utterly inadequate. No bathtubs are provided. The county furnishes towels and soap but no changes of underwear. A prisoner cannot be required to bathe and change when admitted, because there are no tubs and no clothes. He and all the vermin and disease he may bring with him are thrown into a cage with a dozen or more other prisoners - clean, dirty, healthy or dis eased - there to remain in darkness and dampness for weeks and months. The men are kept herded in the cage all the time, as the walls of the rooms are not strong enough to hold them.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0282997482
• ISBN 13: 9780282997489
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32