Lawyers for the inmates say overcrowding could be reduced if Dart released non-violent inmates through the electronic monitoring program.
"We wouldn't have anybody sleeping on the floor of the jail and we wouldn't have a constitutional violation," said Locke Bowman, attorney for plaintiffs.
"The sheriff of Cook County does not believe that he has sufficient information to place 15-hundred or more people on electronic monitoring without input from the courts," said Attorney for Sheriff Dart Daniel Gallagher.
Judge Virginia Kendall plans to visit the jail next Friday.
