Bodies of the Poor Piling Up at Chicago Morgue: The city unable to pay for burial boxes for the dead, creating a backlog of over 300 corpses

Noel Brinkerhoff
All Gov
January 18, 2012

Times are so tough in Illinois that the state and its largest city are having a difficult time burying its poor.

In Chicago, bodies are stacking up in the city morgue because the medical examiner’s office hasn’t paid for the burial boxes used for the dead who were indigent.

At the office of the Cook County Medical Examiner, the morgue’s cooler, built to hold 300 bodies, currently has [...]

NH Bill Would Make Some T&A Screening Sexual Assault

CONCORD, N.H. — A House committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday on a bill that would make it a sexual assault for an airport screener to touch or view a person’s breast or genitals without probable cause.The bill (HB628-FN) includes anyone working as a security agent of the federal, state, or local government, and includes touching or viewing with a “technological device.”

The [...]