Crowded in Corrections

SYCAMORE - The visitors' room at the DeKalb County Jail isn't meant to be a holding cell. It's where loved ones come to see inmates and talk over receivers while separated by a glass pane. The attorneys' room isn't supposed to be used that way either. The small round table and three chairs in the room are for lawyers to discuss cases with clients. But when the jail has more inmates than it does beds, corrections deputies use the two rooms as holding cells. “These rooms don't have a bath or toilet or running water,” said Lt. Joyce Klein, jail supervisor for the last 12 years. “It shouldn't be used as a holding cell, but it is. As a result, someone gets mad and starts banging. Where in a proper cell they'd only damage their hand, they break t