Donation Options Search Search Search Graduating ... The cost of keeping someone in Cook County Jail for a year in 2023 was $60,621. The annual cost per inmate in the Illinois Department of ...

Part 2 of The Telegraph's two-part series on John Rohnert looks at his years as Dawson County sheriff, including the 1977 murders of two women by the late Dennis Sell.

Nothing stings like the death of a favorite television character. Whether it’s an honorable lord with his head on the ...

People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday ...

Arrest, conviction and sentence: Arrested on May 14, 1983. Kraft was pulled over by California Highway Patrol for weaving, and officers found a dead body in the front passenger seat. He was convicted ...

The North Wildwood Police Department says on April 10th, two of their detectives stopped a vehicle being driven by ...

After a decline following statewide bail reform — and years of reductions prior to that — the county’s jail population has ...

The state requires jails to report when they use restraint chairs. For nearly 900 cases from 2019 to 2023, Cook County Jail ...

COOK CO., Ill. - A former cemetery worker in Cook County was charged with allegedly stealing more than $114,000 in funeral ...