Early in the morning outside Cook County Jail, a group of new detainees stepped out of a Chicago police wagon and walked bleary-eyed into the bright sunlight before lining up inside against a ...

A pair of Cook County Jail detainees are alleging sheriff’s deputies encouraged a third inmate to tie them up and sexually assault them at knifepoint after one of them complained about forced ...

The Cook County courts may have problems with data, but earlier this year Loyola's David Olsen produced an interesting report about the jail population in Cook County: what people are accused of ...

An inmates at the Cook County, Ill., jail takes his covered ballot to be cast at the jail's Division 11 Chapel after voting in a local election on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, in Chicago. The ...

At her swearing-in ceremony six months ago, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke promised a tougher approach to ...

The Cook County Jail, with more than 5,500 inmates and detainees ... We'll catch you up on the news you need to know with the Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. Despite that ruling, voting rights ...

A correctional officer at the Cook County Jail was injured Friday. The Chicago Fire Department said they responded to the jail just before 7:30 p.m. A correctional officer was transported to ...