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 consists of 18 weeks of intensive military training and an eight–month supervised post–release program.
The inmates live in platoon style dormitories with 48 inmates in each platoon.
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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. There is no recreational free time for the inmates.
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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 thousand G.E.D.’s have been earned by Boot Camp inmates.
Computer recycling classes are offered through a partnership with West Side Technical Institute. Chicagoland Prison Outreach has partnered with the Boot Camp to offer a class that prepares inmates to take the written carpenter’s apprentice examination.
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.
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