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 ...

Cook County Jail inmates claim guards allowed assault in retaliation for prior complaint about forced sex Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune Thu, May 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM UTC ...

A Cook County Jail guard is continuing to recover after he was brutally attacked by a murder suspect last March. The surprising trend shaking up the Trump administration Flying Car Street-Legal ...

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 ...

A few times a year, students from DePaul University join people incarcerated in Cook County Jail for book clubs. One of the clubs is reading the book Dead Man Walking, and last month they got a ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WGN) — It’s an ongoing problem at Cook County Jail. Officials say inmates continue to sexually harass female workers, despite repeated attempts to stop and even punish the ...

(The Center Square) – Chicago and Cook County officials continue to push back against the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging migrant sanctuary policies. In the past 100 days of ...

Jail inmate Randy Rencher made it seem easy to escape from the Cook County Jail in June. Authorities said he broke into a corrections officer's locker, stole the uniform and walked out of the jail ...

"These claims were made years before Sheriff Dart took office and are based on past practices at the Cook County Jail - practices which haven't existed in years," said Sheriff's Department ...

Cook County Jail guard Blair Pacatte was attacked by inmate Absalom Coakley last March and is recovering from injuries. A fundraiser is being held to support Pacatte and his family during his ...

Now, as the United Kingdom citizen faces felony drug charges, she is entangled in an immigration-related fight with the state’s attorney’s office as she seeks release from Cook County Jail ...