CHICAGO (CBS) -- The beating of a Cook County Jail guard by inmates was caught on video this past weekend—and union leaders representing correction officers now have safety concerns. Teamsters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cook County Jail on Tuesday reported its first case ... Meanwhile, over the weekend, the Chicago Public Health Department received an allotment of more than 15,000 monkeypox vaccine doses ...

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 ...

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