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Serial podcast season 1 episode 35/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The court stenographers, always courteous, drag their squat wheelie cases on and off the elevator. Detectives wearing lanyards often get off on the ninth floor where the prosecutor's office is. And the higher floors, starting about halfway up the building, are for felonies. The lower floors are for lesser crimes, less hallowed proceedings-misdemeanors, housing court. Once they get a court date they're riding up to one of the courtroom floors. ![]() They get booked, go up a few floors to the jail. Weary cops escort suspects from the underground parking garage. If a person's arrested in Cleveland, they're coming into the Justice Center from the basement. The main court tower is 26 stories high, so the elevator really runs the place. Roughly speaking, the building functions like most hierarchies-vertically. The Justice Center houses in one location everything a justice system needs-the city and county courts, the county jail, prosecutor's offices, the sheriff's office, and headquarters for the Cleveland police. I could hedge here, but I'm just going to say it-the buildings are hideous, but practical. It's a cluster of concrete towers built in the 1970s. The Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio, takes up a whole city block downtown.
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