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 detainees worried their tiers will be ... a development sheriff’s officials are downplaying. Inmates told the newspaper they are staging what they describe as hunger strikes ...

It's a scene that happens every weekday at the Cook County Jail: a bus transports a group of inmates, all handcuffed, to court in the Chicago suburbs. Most of those trips are uneventful ...

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 ...

California in Little Village became the first jail in the country to operate as a precinct with in-person voting in March 2020, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office. Inmate voting ...

A Cook County program aims to help prison inmates ... My kids basically were raised by their mother." About 80 inmates go to the jail's Mental Health Transition Center five days a week.

Donation Options Search Search Search Inmates accept communion at Christmas Day Mass at Cook County Jail. This was the 42nd year that the services were held for those in custody. Zubaer Khan/Sun ...

CHICAGO (CN) — Former inmates of the Cook County Jail in Chicago took the county sheriff's office before the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday over the practice of retaining and eventually destroying ...

CHICAGO — Within the walls of the Cook County Jail, there grows a garden where hope springs eternal in the days of summer. Inmate and gardener Jammie Williams said it’s home away from home ...

would have sent up to 50 of Cook County's inmates to the Bureau County Jail. The county would have then received $65 per detainee, per day. Under the deal, Cook County would pay for medical care ...

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 ...