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US County Chief Goes to Stay in Prison to Know Conditions Firsthand

by Gopalan on August 24, 2008 at 5:34 PM General Health News

In a dramatic move Lake County chief Mark Curran has sentenced himself to a weeklong stay in prison to find out conditions there firsthand. He entered the prison under his jurisdiction Wednesday.

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"I believe that I can be a better sheriff by having a better understanding of jail operations from the perspective of an inmate," he said at a news conference. "Because the idea came to me in a church, I believe it is divinely inspired."

Curran, a Catholic, couched his reasoning for going to jail in terms of redemption and forgiveness. He often intersperses his public comments with religious terms.

"The biblical adage that we reap what we sow is very true in criminal justice," said Curran, 45, before exchanging his business suit for a prison jumpsuit at the Waukegan, Illinois, facility near Chicago.

He said he was attending a law-enforcement leadership conference at Willow Creek Community Church in Barrington when "a light bulb kind of went off in my head."

Curran, 45, a former prosecutor elected sheriff in 2006, has shown a strong interest in jail and correctional programs since being elected, including visiting the notorious Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana to gauge how faith-based education and counseling programs work there.

The sheriff blamed the Illinois Department of Corrections for allowing conditions that led gangs to gestate within the walls of its prisons. The state prison system "has treated inmates like caged animals, only to see them released back into their communities angrier and more bitter than they originally were," he said.

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