Melinda Power -- West Town Law Office

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Innocent Defendants Still Have to Pay Court Fees to Cook County

Date: March 15, 2012

This week we're looking at some of the ways Cook County makes money when it locks people up. We've seen that the county is one of thousands of government bodies in the U.S. making millions of dollars each year from the inflated prices inmates and their families pay for phone calls from jail. Read More