Built in 1955, Division 2 was designed to hold 870 detainees in a dormitory setting. Formerly the City of Chicago’s House of Corrections, it was turned over to the Sheriff’s Office in 1970 and combined with Division 1 to form the Cook County Department of Corrections. Division 2 has four individual dormitories of which three are three story buildings and the other is a single level building. Division 2 has a total capacity of 1,860 minimum/medium security detainees.
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