Only one problem with this idea: Who will monitor the "prisoners".

Good ole' toni the taxer. Raise politicians income and then vote to freeze them against budget cuts. Turn thugs loose on the streets because it would cut into their MULTIPLE pensions if we had to house them. (Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot about the home monitoring. That'll work.)

move them to empty prisons in illinois

Just do like J-NAP does. Release a bunch of the inmates and just blame sequestration.

Chicago mayor wants longer mandatory sentencing for gun violation laws. Where are they going to put the violators? Will they release felons to make room?

Tony has to take care of the "brothers and sisters" to keep those votes coming in,Boy has things changed,feel sorry for the grandkids,were oh were has the flowers gone?????

Take the overtime budget and hire more police??? Make the parents pay for the prisoners under 21.. The main reason most in there is because the parents had them and abandoned them...90% of the problems in the city are caused by the lack of parental guidance! Generation after generation living in projects and subsidized housing on welfare causes this..Why work when the government will give you what you need for free.. When they want more they just rob the working person..Until the government makes the parents of these animals responsible, it will continue!! Wake up and speak up!! We all know what is happening!!

We could invade Syria, this will insure the Baaka Valley drug pipeline is secure then open up new pipelines direct into the killing fields, give every teacher a M2 CARBINE the resulting carnage will eliminate repeat offenders and potential inmates, the second option is feed the hood more GE FOOD that makes then too obese to fit into drive by muscle cars preferred by bangers this will make paupers cemeteries as crowded as the county clink is now!
@ Dirty Harry were oh were did u ware a flower in yer hair?

Lets have a Mariel style Boat Lift to CUBA. We could call it the "CROOK COUNTY BOAT LIFT". Toni P. could be the Captain. Jimmy (worst president in history) Carter could be the deck hand and hose off their excrement. It's time, in our country we start doing to our enemies what they have been doing to us. While we are at it we could also empty are prisons of rapists, pedophiles, murderers, etc. and get rid of them to. Bernie Madoff could be the mess hall captain.

Now we cooking Ed, the best Pres either had Alzheimer's or knew about the gun running and drug trafficking in the basement? Why blame Bernie though he did what everyone does follow the money, it was stashed away in Temples where they worship the golden calf!

Guess Rahm is off the hook for more police, No more room in the jails.

This is just a band-aid idea for a deeper problem.

They should look closely at the non-violent offenders and find other ways to handle them (reduced sentencing, work release, etc.). Many are casualties from the "war on drugs" and aggressive sentencing.

we should go to war with North Korea and send all of our prisoners ,kill 2 birds with one stone lol

just wondering , in the old days didn't inmates have to pay for the time they were in jail ? people in Illinois jail ,sit and watch TV all day and we foot the bill

Why not dump another tax on us Toni? You are truly in over your head trying to run this county. PLEASE get out before you destroy what is left of crook county!

Time for another jail! When Wrigley moves out build it at Addison n Clark! Bahhhaa

Why they just send all of them ship them over sea:s if they want fight or kill some one.
Take then to a small iland and drop them off, haaaaaa

Wow; now I thought I was a raciest; but reading some of these remarks show me that I don't have anything of some of you. I guess you all are missing that 1/2 cent now.. And for the record a lot of those siting in the county jail have not been found guilty of anything and they are sitting as they don't have the money to post bail for that bag of weed they had in their pocket. You know the same crime that a large number of non-blacks get caught with but are let go with a warring.. So this thought of what we can or could do with them would stomp on their rights; but after all why should we care after all they are just P & B

Unfortunately, that bag of weed that got them in jail this time is the last in a long list from their criminal history. Its just a reason to keep the punk off the street. If weed was their only crime they'd be back on the street with the rest of the rapists, thieves and murderers.

Well you must had miss the part where I said they could not afford to post bail; oh well let's just take them outback and have a picnic..... And just in case you wanted to know the term picnic come from the time when in our history some would sit out on the lawns and pick a black person to lynch and burn from the tree and sometimes they would had committed some type of crime; you know like looking a white woman or looking a white man in the eyes. I know how do we miss those good old days when things were just so right and we could just keep them in their place; and you know those thieves and rapist that you are talking about now well they use to be called master and he live up in the big house..

I wish you were as insightful as to what the future holds for all of us as you are about re-living the past.

Think he means the master is the one that should be in the clink, just follow the money! Even as we put more and more pot heads and criminals with the exception of preachers and priest molesters who sometimes are not too big to jail unlike CEO's and Banksters and National Security advisors and the real war criminals who lie us into war and make 40 Billion on our sacrifice and blood, where is the outcry on mass murder, lies, war profiteering?
Instead the echoers want privatize prisons that makes crime more of a incentive for corrupt cops and judges to incarcerate more innocent people and insure they come out career criminals and makes the corrupt system more so, it also provides slave labor where it is used another reason to jail the too big Banksters and especially Politicians for their crimes against humanity and war profiteering at the very least.

T.O.B.S ; I started off by saying that I'm a racist in my own way so I'm not the one to toss stone when i too live in a glass house. But my racist does not stop or start at a person skin but goes into their mind set...as you see foolish comes in many shades

And doug one must never forget the past as it will become your further

Ok let me start off with saying that I did not want this to be about race and I only touch on that as it seem that was the main point that some where making. Now; I have said that the issues that we (those of us that live in Cook County) find our selves in now has a lot to do with the fact when Todd was in office there were so many people whom were piss about ½ cent on a penny tax; now they wanted to get rid of that ½ cent and everything was going to be so good then; as we found out that’s is not what happened. Now I feel that we should make money off those whom want to use drugs and we can do this by taxes the stuff. I don’t care for those who do; but I also don’t care for those whom drink also. Now; this will never happed as it’s big money in the jail systems; most if not all our prison are private and are making money for the stock holders. So I hope that we can address the issues at hand and that is what we can do to bring down the number of people who are in CCJ

It is against Illinois law for a private company to operate a prison.

There are no pvt prisons in Illinois, not that the NEO'S and Banksters do not want them! The State of Illinois sold a empty modern state of the art Prison to the Fed's that was or could have housed Gitmo prisoners but!!! The prison is still empty the County can use their contacts to contract with the Fed's to move the worst and the potential worst what ever and whoever they are, it is a solution better than the word playing that is going on this is a typical setup by fear merchants to create dialogues that deteriorate to this level, do u think the downwinders and Banksters are serious about solutions to filled prisons, DEBT and DEFICITS or leaky casks at nuke reactors or even a sensible Health Care for all or everyone part E get real!

Only persons convicted of a federal crime are eligible to go to federal prison.

I've consulted the rosetta stone. In sandscrit "butch" means "ignore, it will give you a headache". Lordy, those people were way ahead of their time!

Laird u indeed are clever however u consulted the wrong friggin GURU, u just can't venture in unknown waters when dealing with fake shamans and new agers, there is nada written in sandscit, it is part of the deterioration of the Amagyla, the effects of TPARTISM sorry it is usually fatal if u are a downwinder!
@TOM the prison has never been used and designated as such it requires a bit of quid pro with lawyers and makers are u one? Remember when the Fed and States,and Local were in it together? Now they just pay lip service and waste all these resources on Stove Piping or what it is called ! Nothing changes unless someone starts the process maybe Dart will with some help from local Judges, Fed and local prosecutors if it gets worse and it has to!
How bout moving the prisoners at the infamous downtown Fed prison to the boonies and rent the building from the Fed's?

Privatize the HIGHWAY DEPT that's the last refuge for the worthless pol's and their consultants!

@laird yer askin me where yer empty head reads SANDSCRIT!

maybe if they made prisons a little more of a deterrant, rather than a haven for people who want shelter, food, and recreation, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

@laird yer askin me where yer empty head reads SANDSCRIT

UMMMMM. What? Try to explain that in less than a book.

THAT is always the TPARTY SOLUTION in Fla in gator alley, the Haitians and non Cuban illegals work in the sugar, citrus and farms for about A DIME MORE than Twit PAYS the COOLIES in Bain land China, ditto in Az, both huge TPARTY GOV'S, I bet they are doing this as part of their civic obligations!.

For the madness pickers I would like to proudly announce I had Harvard and FL gulf Coast where Chris Sale went to school in my bracket!

Cook County Criminal Court Case: 12-CR5646-01 People v Mosley, 3/15/13 Judge Michael Brown has ruled that the Illinois FOID Card Law and AG/UUW Law are Unconstitutional. Conceal Carry is NOW legal in Cook County!

@ Dan that is great news for all of us law abiding members of society as well the traitors of the TPARTY.I do not think it matters to the kids whose schools are closing and have to now travel thru half a mile or more of enemy lines in the killing fields ex 69th Halsted to 71 st Racine, a bullet proof vest would be more in order.
This was no constitutional question but a corporate decision on behalf of Ammo land Netanyahu is apologizing to the Turks for killing a few of their citizens meanwhile here in the killing fields the Rabbi terrorists are culling the herd of the opposition dealers with massive collateral damage and the profits pile up higher than the bodies for Drugs and WMD.The shrieks coming from the tax avoiders who regularly kill and maim millions without ever paying a dime for the pleasure are ecstatic it is in yer writing, now u can legally carry a glock to a TPARTY rally or better Dem pro choice packing, let's here it u loyal MURKANS a big USA-USA,
forget those parents and class mates of the kids in CT there are a lot more of u than them it says so in the Gettysburg Address or something Bush said!
The reason the law is unconstitutional is the Madigoons had the Hyman Rothschild firm draw it up, they and their clients have a special interests in 99% of Illinois laws.

@Laird for anyone not one part of the chosen people versions of anything the ROSETTA STONE is for decoding hieroglyphics which SANSKRIT is not, there were hieroglyphics and even texts and wisdom passed down from the Garden of Eden and I suppose of Dino's that roamed paradise here on earth with them but were were burned by Christian mobs in Alexandria that would have made it less complicated but the comic book versions are easier for u to understand.
SANSKRIT goes back even further to a different Garden where the RINO and NEO-CONS recently looted their ancestors also burned the library at Antioch for the same reasons as Alexandria and for that u can have a passing grade in advanced comic book classics interpretations.
Your Sandscript is only good in pre school sand boxes and TParty fund raisers!