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County Board Views Conditions at the Jail by PAUL Nailing • at the Kane County Correctional raclilty Kane County Board member Hollie Kissane peers into an inmate holding cell Thursday in Geneva as part of a tour for the new members of the county board. County board views conditions at the jail By PAUL nAILING • . Kane CoUnty Jail by the numbers mates, 15 more than Its ca- Kane Count)' Cbronicic . pacityovertlowinmatesare • opened: October 1975. to 13 sent to jails in McHenry, nthe Kane County Jail, Additions made in 1984, • Ratio of prisoners Jefferson and Kendall coun- the ceiling in booking 1989 and 1996 guards: 40 to 1, to 120 to ties. I leaks when it rains. • Estimated square '1, depending on type of cell McHenry County, which The stains in the ceilings footage: 87,000 square • Cost to house one housed an average 78 Kane are among the first things in- feet prisoner per day: $38 County inmates per day in coming inmates see when • Capacity: 398 prisoners (excluding overhead) 2004, charges $67 a day per being admitted to the over- • Currently houses: 413 • Security status: Entire jail inmate. crowded facility at 777 E. prisoners; 78 prisoners on now considered maximum Lee Barrett, R-East Fabyan Parkway. were housed in security. Former medium Dundee. said this is lower A leaky thof was one of average security cell blocks designed than the $74 they usually several eyesores Kane County McHenry County Jail per day charge because Kane in 2004. for 16 prisoners, currently Board members saw hold 32- Original maximum. Countyhouses sdme of Thursday. Six of the seven • McHenry County charges $67 McHenry County's juvenile a day per prisoner; prisoners security cell blocks designed newboard members toured for three prisoners, currently offenders. the jail, some seeing it for the also sent to Jefferson and McHenry County used to Kendall counties. hold six to eight first time. - Kane County Chronicle charge $50 per prisoner. The tour, hosted by Sheriff • Guards on day shift: 11 However, facilities for juve- .Kenneth Ramse and Chief of niles since have been con- CorrectionsTodd Exline, the Judicial Center campus at formerboard Chairman Phil brought members up to dateS Elfstrom declared it full in on the jails poor conditions PeckRoad and Route 38 and is expected to cost $42 mil- January 1976. • - and plans for a new 600-bed We've always been be- jail to replace the current site. lion. hind the eight ball,' said. Mark Davoust. R-St. When the new jail isbtilit. Ramsey said he knows what James Mitchell, R-North Charles, was out of the coun- Aurora. try and did not attend, he wants to do with the cur- rent facility. Mitchell is chairman of. Chairman Karen Mcconn- the Judiciary/Corrections/ aughrhad scheduled atour "1 want to be the one to push the plunger and blowit Public Safety Committee, for the new members on Dec. which McCohnaughay re- 8, however, no one could at- up," he said. The jail opened in cently created by merging its tend. component committees. See JAIL page The new jail is planned for October 1975. Ramsey said JLM ATh C) a U) I ' C) Ct ±!n C i-a WIEfl t 14 0 "tbC0 - t -2 I-IC) C)•t•5 :g C 0 00 -t '00 bb I) - 0)C).jcC,; C"] e . 0Jt. 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