"Any-and-anything went. Anything from heroin to whiskey to Italian food was sold and traded in the jail. Homosexual rape, bribery and murder were the bill of fare. [And] no one seemed to give a damn."
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Former inmate of Cook County Jail, as quoted by in the liner notes of ' by B. B. King
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