Another aspect of the Criminal Justice System in Chicago and Cook County that is not getting the job done. 300 Lost in Cook County’s EM Program
Officials are now admitting that Cook County's pathetic and dangerous electronic monitoring system, a program that is supposed to make sure convicts are properly serving their home-based criminal sentences, has lost track of more than 300 people.
According to the Chief Judge, that is about eight percent of the population on electronic monitoring.
Burke added the data "clearly demonstrates how current safeguards are falling short, particularly when [electronic monitoring] is available to those charged with the most threatening and heinous crimes."
These are people charged with serious crimes. The people missing are as follows:
- 21 convicts charged with murder
- 13 charged with attempted murder
- 173 charged with aggravated assault
- 29 people charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault
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