Cook County government has seen 150 elected leaders, high-ranking officials and people doing business with the county sent to prison since the 1950s, according to a new study that did the math.

That’s an average of three bad apples a year sent to the pokey, according to the study released today by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s political science department and a watchdog group, the Better Government Association.

Read the complete article at the Chicago Sun-Times.