This fall, teenagers throughout Cook County are busy with classes, sports, activities and socializing. Unfortunately, it appears that youth at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center — under the direction of Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans — will spend yet another year without such opportunities, despite the center’s mandate to foster their rehabilitation and development.
Evans is responsible for the JTDC, which has a dismal history of overcrowding and poor living conditions. Under federal court supervision from 2007 to 2015, the JTDC improved. But since then, under the control of Evans, care of the 150 detained youth has stagnated.
