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Earl Dunlap

Kids come first at Cook County junvenile center

Filed by Chloe Wiley on May 15, 2008 03:24 AM

It is no secret that the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center has issues. The more than 400 children under 16 sentenced to the facility deal with poor staffing and a bleak environment every day.

After months of arguing, county officials put down their boxing gloves Wednesday to discuss how to improve center facilities --making the kids the priority.

"We have to stop fighting--we are only fighting ourselves," County Commissioner Joseph Moreno said.

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