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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At least seven jail precincts across the country, including one in Cook County, have implemented in-person voting to mitigate these challenges. During the 2018 primary, less than 7% of those ...