Illinois was the first state in the nation ... 2022, at Division 5 of Cook County Jail. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) Proponents of the law have long argued that cash bail deepened disparities ...

Andy Grimm / Chicago Sun-Times Share The Cook County Jail population has dipped below 5,000 for only the second time in nearly four decades, a drop experts are linking to Illinois’ historic ...

The defendant, who was ordered detained in Cook County Jail, was among those who stood for revamped detention hearings across Illinois during the first month under the new pretrial system.

An Illinois jail continues to teach democracy ... of many being temporarily held while not serving a sentence at Cook County Jail’s Division II, which still has barbed wire surrounding the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Next week marks one year since Illinois outlawed cash bail ... The population of the Cook County Jail is down about 14%. Other urban parts of the state are also down about ...

Data obtained by Illinois Answers Project shows Cook County Jail used restraint chairs nearly 900 times in five years. That's more than at any other jail in the state. But it's also a lower rate ...

CHICAGO — Certain detainees leaving Cook County jail will now be given a state ID card upon release in a new pilot program announced Monday by Sheriff Tom Dart and Illinois Secretary of State ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – An inmate at the Cook County Jail was beaten to death on Tuesday ... and the manner of death to be a homicide. The Illinois State Police Public Integrity Task Force is investigating.

The Cook County Jail population has dipped below 5,000 for only the second time in nearly four decades, a drop experts are linking to Illinois’ historic elimination of cash bail on Sept.