There must be sheriffs all over the United States cursing Mark Curran since Lake County's top cop checked himself into a suite at the county jail in downtown Waukegan. You know somebody's going to see the story about Lake County's sheriff and ask their sheriff: "When you going to jail?"
The Hound isn't sure what the sheriff will find on this week-long fact-finding mission about what it's like in jail and how the jail is run, but it sounds like he's going to be a regular inmate without one of those cellmates seen on "Prison Break" or "Oz". Yet, it certainly doesn't sound like a summer camp jaunt.
Inmates might be warned, though, that Curran could find the place too soft and start doing what Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff has done. Known as "America's toughest sheriff", Arpaiio has served inmates bologna sandwiches, limited meals to twice daily, banned coffee, smoking, porn magazines and weightlifting gear. You want TV in his jail? You get Animal Planet, Disney Channel, The Weather Channel, A&E, CNN and the local government access channel.
Inmates there wear black-and-white jail uniforms, get issued pink underwear and some are sent to tents. So inmates might want to be careful what they say.
The Hound understands one of the CDs Curran has in jail is "Live at Folsom" by Johnny Cash. What, no "Jailhouse Rock" by the King?
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