SHERIFF'S BOOTCAMP - Facts & Figures
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- The Cook County Boot Camp is located on a 10.2 acre complex at 2801 South Rockwell Avenue in Chicago Illinois.
- The one year program is split into two phases, the Residential and Post Release Phase. The Residential Phase consists of eighteen weeks of intense military discipline and education. The Post Release Phase lasts for a total of eight months and consists of daily interaction with an assigned case manager.
- The inmates live in platoon style dormitories with 48 inmates in each platoon.
- There are a total of 10 buildings on the compound, including two educational buildings, four dormitories, a mess hall, an intake dormitory containing medical and counseling offices, an administration building, a gatehouse, and a gymnasium. The gymnasium is utilized for graduation ceremonies and as a physical training area in inclement weather only. All of the inmates time is focused on training and education towards the goal of graduating the program, there is no recreational free time for the inmates.
- The Boot Camp offers an educational curriculum that covers learning disabled students up to pre-G.E.D. coursework. The Boot Camp is an official G.E.D. testing site and the G.E.D. is offered on-site monthly to both in-camp and post release inmates. Over a twelve hundred G.E.D.’s have been earned by Boot Camp inmates.
- Computer recycling classes are offered through a partnership with West Side Technical Institute. To date the Boot camp has recycled over 1000 Computers equaling 35,000 bounds of materiel which would otherwise have gone into landfills.
- Chicagoland Prison Outreach has partnered with the Boot Camp to offer a class that prepares inmates to take the written carpenter’s apprentice examination.
- An ongoing program with the Chicago Botanic garden has provided over 8000 pounds of produce for the Boot Camp and approximately 8500 pounds of produce has also been contributed to Chicago area food banks.
- Substance abuse programming involves both individual and group counseling. Inmates in the post-release phase are subject to random drug testing and are referred to either inpatient or outpatient treatment upon a positive result.
If you are looking for information on Juvenile Boot Camp programs for an individual, please contact the Lincoln Challenge program by clicking here: http://www.ngycp.org/state/il/ or calling (800) 851-2166.