Inside the Cook County jail where Jussie Smollett will serve at least two months along with 6,000 inmates: Cramped dorms, riots in the mess hall and limited visits are what disgraced star can expect

  • Smollett, 39, has been sentenced to 150 days but he is eligible to serve half for good behavior – a little over two months
  • He will carry out the sentence in the Cook County Jail, which is central Chicago near the courthouse 
  • The actor is currently being held in the medical unit but it’s unclear if he will spend his entire sentence there
  • Cook County Jail has 6,000 inmates, the vast majority of whom are black men awaiting trial 
  • Those who are serving their sentences there have been given terms of two years or less for low level crimes
  • Smollett had been facing three years in prison and could have gone to a higher security maximum facility
  • Judge James Linn ignored his pleas for mercy and told him yesterday: ‘This is happening’ as he was led away 
  • Judge Linn blasted Smollett for his ‘astounding hypocrisy’ and called him a ‘charlatan’  
  • Smollett – who was convicted of lying to police about being the victim of a hate attack – erupted in court
  • He said if anything happened to him in jail it was the judge’s fault; he previously said he feared for his safety as a ‘black, gay Jewish man’