Author Archives: Kevin P. Morison

To the editors: Harold Henderson is a fine chronicler of the offbeat and the unfamiliar. But I’m afraid his powers of prognostication fail him–at least in regard to an item in his April 29 City File column. Contrary to Mr. Henderson’s prediction that an “amazingly low rate of drug use” would be found among arrestees […]

To the editors: In his November 6 City File column, Harold Henderson stated (correctly) that among all inmates in Cook County Jail at any given time, only one out of eight is actually serving time for a criminal conviction. What the column failed to address was why the other 87 percent of the inmates are […]