NCJ Number
175373
Journal
Corrections Technology and Management Volume: 2 Issue: 5 Dated: May-June 1998 Pages: 12-18
Date Published
1998
Length
7 pages
Annotation
This interview with Assistant Executive Director John Maul of the Cook County (Ill.) Jail focuses on the new division XI maximum-security jail, his career and promotions, and work as a correctional officer in Cook County; the accompanying photographs display a cell, a control station, and other areas of this correctional facility.
Abstract
The concrete structure includes tall guard towers, white concrete, gray steel, and four pods delineated in bright colors: coral blue, teal green, yellow, and orange. Maul believes that the facility has an effect on detainee behavior by calming them down and perhaps changing attitudes. He notes that 95 percent of the inmates are pretrial detainees and have not been convicted of anything. Programs include academic education, a life learning dormitory, vocational training, and drug rehabilitation. Each division has non-smoking living units. The jail has buses can transport 50 prisoners and 2-3 armed officers to courthouses. The commissary will soon be privatized. Some staff may be gang affiliated, although no charges have been proven. The jail houses 1,100 inmates and has 65-70 staff members at any given time. Maul started work as a correctional officer and was promoted through the ranks over his 22 years at the jail. Photographs