My strategy was to try to include as many representations of people as I thought was possible,” Ali Cantarella says.

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 ...

Sheriff Tom Dart says Cook County Jail, with a population of about 7,500, has become a dumping ground for the poor and mentally ill. Cook County has implemented a mental health program for some ...

Chicago’s Cook County Jail once had a population of roughly 10,000 detainees and was often cited for overcrowding. Now that number is down to around 4,200, an all-time low, according to the Cook ...

Attorneys and former detainees are calling for the closure of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, alleging in newly filed class-action lawsuits systematic sexual abuse and ...

A corrections officer could be heard shouting commands Thursday morning in a concrete yard of Division 19 at the Cook County jail. But the detainees weren’t being bossed around. Instead ...

CHICAGO (AP) — For college senior Nana Ampofo, an unconventional book club inside one of the nation’s largest jails has transformed her career ambitions. Each week, the 22-year-old drives a ...

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 ...

The Cook County Jail, with more than 5,500 inmates and detainees, is one of the largest such facilities in the nation. It is one of several lockups where voting rights advocates have worked with ...

Cook County’s jailed population has shrunk by more than half over the past decade, but the massive reduction hasn’t led to big savings for taxpayers or a major boost in funding for crime ...

CHICAGO — Now in its second decade, the Cook County Jail chess program is thriving, competing internationally and above all — it’s working. WGN News spent time at the jail to learn about the ...