Felons, too, among inmates who county won’t hold for immigration so forget that we said only misdemeanor charges

Steve Patterson, a spokesman for sheriff Tom Dart, backed that up in an e-mailed statement Thursday: “The [ordinance] affects anyone charged with a misdemeanor or felony crime who posts their bond or has their case adjudicated. If they also have an immigration detainer, normally that person would be turned over to immigration authorities within 48 hours. Instead, they will freely leave the jail.

Commissioner Joan Murphy who elected this clown?

Cook County Commissioner Joan Murphy Thursday went as far as to say she “misspoke” when she earlier declared that only those locked up on misdemeanors would be impacted.

“It’s a misdemeanor — it’s nothing, this is the people that we’re talking about that are going to be released, not anyone that has a felony,” Murphy said during Wednesday’s meeting.

“That’s not what I meant,” Murphy said Thursday. “The point is that the majority are being held for misdemeanors.”

When asked at Wednesday’s meeting by Commissioner William Beavers, a South Side Democrat, about whether “dangerous criminals” might be released, the sheriff’s legal counsel Peter Kramer said: “In theory, yes.”