Dart's Jail

Another great job by Tommy-Boy:

• Savage Life is what they call themselves — a gang of about 30 Cook County jail inmates.
  
  The sheriff’s office is trying to get them under control.
  
  Brad Curry is the Corrections Bureau Chief at the sheriff’s office. He deals with the inmates who call themselves Savage Life.
  
  “The name kind of says it all. The name is what their goal is: to have a savage life,” he says at the jail’s Division 9.

And this from a Cook County tipster:

• In a recent FOIA request the Sheriff's office admits 27% of staff/officers from division 9 are on Injury on Duty status.

So 30 jagoffs in a "secure" facility have somehow managed to injure nearly 30% of the staff that are supposedly in charge of the wing. That sounds like a pretty big problem.

And Dart's isn't just losing control of the jail - you heard about that judge letting a lawyer sit in and run her courtroom?

• A veteran Cook County Circuit Court judge allegedly allowed a lawyer who is running for election to the bench this fall to wear a robe and hear cases at the Markham courthouse late last week, a breach of judicial ethics as well as a potential violation of the law.
  
  The move prompted the county's chief judge, Timothy Evans, to remove the judge from the bench Wednesday until further notice.

You'd think someone would notice the judge wasn't sitting on the bench. A clerk. The State Attorney. Maybe a Deputy.

Oops, a Deputy did notice. And reported it. And was ignored:

• Sheriff's office attempted to cover-up Judge scandal at the Markham Courthouse. Numerous sources saying a Deputy wrote a memo stating Judge was allowing her friend to wear a robe and play Judge on the bench. The Deputy's memo was never reported by the Sheriff's office. The Sheriff's office is now claiming they did not know if Judge was running a "training" exercise. Numerous sources say this is a lie cause Sheriff Dart blew a gasket today in his office as he just learned the Deputy documented the incident.

Tommy "Wants to be Mayor" Dart.