Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans recently released a report from Eugene Griffin that claimed to describe and assess conditions at Cook County’s Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC). The report made a number of sensational assertions about the JTDC, the character of its employees and the quality of its management — assertions that Griffin amplified in a Sun-Times opinion column.
A thorough review of Griffin’s report, however, shows that it is a deeply flawed document meant to advance a handful of ill-informed and irresponsible policy prescriptions.
