One other point about Cook County in particular. Not only is it regularly listed as the biggest single-site jail in the country, but it usually has the longest-serving detainees who have yet to reach trial.
Augustin Toscano has so far spent 14 years in pretrial detention without conviction and no sign of trial in the near future. He is not an outlier. There are dozens near or over a decade inside CCJ.
Augustin Toscano has so far spent 14 years in pretrial detention without conviction and no sign of trial in the near future. He is not an outlier. There are dozens near or over a decade inside CCJ.