Tipping Point: Inside the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center
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Point: Inside the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center  Posted:
Updated: CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -  Any kid accused of a serious
crime in Cook County is almost sure to set foot in the Juvenile
Detention Center -- a place so bad for so long, that a federal
judge appointed an outsider to run it six years ago as the
result of a lawsuit.  A "patronage pit" is how Earl Dunlap
describes the Juvenile Detention Center back in the day.  "There
were a lot of staff here that were highly suspect and highly
questionable," Dunlap recalls. "They didn't get here on their
own, they got here through a political process in Cook County at
the time.  Teresa Abreu now heads a new executive team at the
facility everyone would like to see empty.  "We don't want a kid
to touch the juvenile system, because when you touch this system
there's an increased chance that they're gonna end up in the
adult system and t