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Preckwinkle: Other county leaders resist ideas to reduce jail costs

October 11, 2013

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said her continued efforts to reduce the county's jail population and save taxpayers millions of dollars a year are being thwarted by the county's elected public safety leaders. "It's very expensive to keep people in jail," she said. "Basically every actor, in my view, in the system could do more to ensure that justice is dispensed more fairly and expeditiously."

Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20131010/news/710109839/
 
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