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’
