CHICAGO — People awaiting trial here at the Cook County Jail, one of the nation's largest local jails, have endured vastly inadequate medical care, beatings at the hands of jail workers and dilapidated, dangerous building conditions often left unrepaired for months, federal authorities said on Thursday.
Following decades of civil war, the health infrastructure is dilapidated, trained health care workers are scarce, and the health indicators are poor [ 12].
Significant parts of the city are densely packed with substandard, often dilapidated housing, inhabited mostly by construction workers, sweepers, factory labourers, and other low-income groups.
The Capitol, finished in 1899 after three decades of construction in multiple architectural styles, is a National Historic Landmark, but it had become so dilapidated in recent years that construction workers could fit their fists through the holes in the red terra cotta roof.
Often, they provide dilapidated housing, do not pay overtime and make migrant workers pay for their tools and rides to work.
He said that the company provided dilapidated trailers and recreational vehicles with no septic systems for the workers' sleeping quarters and two portable toilets that were overflowing on the day he and the other inspectors arrived.
He immortalized gaunt sharecroppers, dilapidated plantations and bone-dry country stores in the South; worker housing and grimy factories in the industrial North; and (with a hidden camera) the unguarded expressions of New York subway riders.
Again, the kitchen was dilapidated.
It renovated dilapidated clinics.
Some museums are dilapidated.
