. >>> chicago's cook county jail, home to r10,000 detainees and l hell is ready to break loose. the gangster disciples, the biggest criminal organization inside and outside the jail is headed toward civil war. >> go ahead. stand by. it's çinsecurity, right? >> investigators drake carpenter and adrian are about to launch a search with their fellow officers. it's one of many tactical measures they take on a regular basis to make sure that a jailhouse war never erupts. >> you want us to go in first? you go straight to 15? i'm ready. you guys ready? a lot. you ready? let's do it. >> get on the bars right now. get on them bars, let's go. get on the bars. >> you ever work with the police before. >> a lot. you ready? let's get it. get on the bars right now. get on them bars, let's go. >> on the bars. on the bars. get off that and catchç them bars. face forward. right behind you. >> this ain't no touchtone. hang up when i tell you to hang up. follow orders. if you don't like it, i'm what you're looking for. put your hands behind your back. >> it is what it is. >> carpenter and sandova

and i also think that the stay in the cook county jail in illinois was an eye-opening experience. you keep going the way you're going i'm going to see you across the street over in criminal division. i don't think he got it. i think he gets it now, now that he's had a taste of cook county. it's strange sitting -- i got in this case three years ago. maybe four. it's strange sitting next to him right now because he's taller than i am. and when the case started out he was taller and bigger than i am, and when the case started out, i dwarfed him. he's grown up quite a bit. while it hasn't been the greatest success in terms of the services provides, i think he did get something out of it. i think since he has good support in his community i believe that there's a good chance that he will not re-offend and hopefully he'll be a productive adult and not find himself, as they say, across the street. >> there's a lot of bumps in the road of life, and hopefully you'll get over those bumps because we're not going to be here to hold your hand anymore.ç >>> i think he's sincere in wanting to tu

some cook county jail cellmates are calling checkmate in a new program that helps teach its medium security prisoners to think before they act. wgn's bob jordan was at the jail this morning and met up with some heavyweights of the world of chess. you make good decisions and refrain from negativity. they have plenty of times on their hands. and idle time is the devil's workshop and so of the sheriff started a new program for detainees at could county jail that schedules time to play chess. i am looking to play better players and become good. on this day the guest a visitor was world renowned chess champion of anatoly karpov. he observed the inmates who were involved in a battle on the chessboard. they were playing almost paternal level. the sheriff says there is already a backlog of 150 who want to learn how to play and join the others who already know how this is a unique thing and a positive thing to be doing and the final hope of it is that the detainees are paying for it themselves out of the inmate welfare fund. what to the inmates think? it is very important for them. it is exciting. a

>> when you work in the jail you come across a dozen cases and anybody in cook county that's been housedhere for meth amphetamines, there's a 90% chance i've interviewed them at one point or another. >> that meth was too strong for me. >> was it really? >> yeah. it was too strong for me. >> didn't like the high, huh? >> no. >> in the past decade, chicago has witnessed the rise of a new and powerfully addictive drug, crystal methamphetamine. cut across race and class lines, users and dealers from all parts of the city and suburbs in cook county jail. it's here that they join thousands of other detainees being held for trial. most have been charged with crimes, but not convicted. >> youç guys got a lot of meth out by you? >> criminal intelligence unit investigator mike davis is looking for the right detainees to help him understand the city's meth trafficking network. >> i'm not people that use meth. i would honestly say prisons like this actually save some of them but a lot of them don't even make it in here. you see the rotted out teeth. i grew up in the crack era. and this is different

. >> many of the best informants begin their careers while locked up at chicago's cook county jail.tainees here are ripe for recruitment, most are accused, not convicted of crimes, and are being held awaiting trial. those who flip and cooperate with authorities can get reduced sentences. some of them will continue working for money after they get out. that's exactly what one former inmate who grew up hustling drugs on the city's west side is doing. >> basically his entire life has been in the business. at one time he was probably more successful than he is now. he had a nice car and he had a hot girl. when you come home and maybe you're out of the realm, maybe the younger guys are running the block and it's not your situation any more. you can still work, but you're never going to be a man on that block. that will change your motivation a little bit. >> what's the money like out there right now? how much you guys make on a day-to-day basis? >> probably about $3,500. >> how often do you think the cops are on that block? >> every month, every day. >> this informant we are calling roos

spokesman for the cook county sheriff's office tells us the facility is among the six options under consideration to house arrest these during the nato summit... and also if the cook county jail population reaches capacity. the joiliet prison was featured in the movie of the blues brothers... and the first season of the show prison break... >> police arrest a chicago cab driver after they say he ran over someone trying to flag him down. officers say he refused to pick up the man at the jefferson park station and before driving away went in reverse and hits a man. the victim broke his leg. witnesses were able to describe him and police arrested him a short time later. he is being held on $40,000 bond. >> 20 years ago today the nation's second-biggest city went up in flames. next a look back at the l.a. riots. >> also and eyewitnesses in new claims about the assassination of robert kennedy and later on instant replay we will hear from the bulls as they get ready for the rest of the playoffs without derrick rose... >> this promises to be an active or weather week in chicago... break let's start with car insurance x. this one does save people a lot of money and it's very affordab

the women said that their civil rights were violated during repeated we can lockdowns at the cook county jail inmates used to be locked in their cells from friday until sunday but that practice stopped in 2003 shortly after the lawsuit was filed most of the money betty hundred $50,000 will go to the women's attorneys chicago mayor rahm emanuel said that the city is close to deal with the chicago cubs to help fund renovations to wrigley field improvements to the nearly 100 year-old stadium could cost $409 without offering specifics the mayor is not completely ruling out the plan floated by the previous owners in 2010 all the pieces have to work together but my job is to represent the people of the city of chicago he is however balking at the plant for the ricketts family to use their own money for the triangle building for commercial space next to the ballpark whatever we do to enhance value wrigley field it will be sure to make sure that the private honors enhance the value of wrigley field i will not put my money in their field so that they can take their money and develop around the field f

accused attacker heriberto viramontes, and his alleged accomplice, marcy cruz, are in custody at cook county jail.. facing attempted murder and other charges. a state police report has been released in the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy with a developmental disorder. calumet city police shot and killed stephon watts at his home in february. watts had asperger's syndrome. police had been called to calm him down. a state police task force concluded that the teen lunged at two officers with a steak knife, cutting one of them, forcing them to shoot watts twice in self-defense. after reviewing the report cook county state's attorneys will *not* file any charges, or investigate the shooting further. orland park police have ticketed the driver of a street sweeper for running a red light in an accident that killed a 15- year-old girl and her parents. police say the sweeper hit the car sunday.. while turning left after the light changed. drug tests are pending.. but police say they don't think alcohol or drugs played a role in the crash. 15-year-old samah deis and her parents wafieh and nazmi were ki

idle time is the devil's workshop so sheriff tom dart has begun this program for detainees at cook county jailem the game of chess ... on this day the guest of visitor was the world-renowned champion anatoly karpov the russian master observed the detainees locked in fierce battle on the chessboards in this jail >>some of these gentlemen are ready for tournaments they play pretty well there were playing at nearly tournament level >>there's a backlog of those who want to learn and join those who already know how >>this is an incredibly positive and unique thing that we are doing and the big coke is that the detainees are paying for it themselves ... >>they passed a lot of time playing it's very important for them and they never fight the sheriff said that as the chess program grows he hopes to have competitions between other detention centers ... he challenges dupage county it's your move ... >>on the medical watch a dramatic rise in skin cancer among young adults ... and researchers say that the big reason is indoor suntan facilities ... a. mayo clinic study looked at skin cancer cases in minne

. >> it's indicative of a larger problem, i toured cook county jail and 99% of the prisoners in there. and like i said, there's a 16% graduation rate in one state of black men. >> do you think it should be about trayvon martin. >> people are tired of these young black men being killed and also not being educated and being marginalized and not being able to get a job. so they're just tired and this is an indication of where the country needs to go to make sure all young people are educated, but particularly black men because they have such a failure right in the educational system. >> i don't think you're going to be able to take apart this case from -- i don't think it's a separate case that doesn't involve race, i clearly don't. >> that's not what i'm saying, but we'll know in the end. >> people can yell and scream about racial injustice potentially, we would never have known because the issue would never have been raised. >> that's a good thing, this outrage makes me proud to be an american because there was the outrage. when a new lawyer comes in for mr. zimmerman, mr. alrich came