Five days a week, about 80 inmates go to the jail's Mental Health Transition Center, part of a program that aims to ensure prisoners don't end up back behind bars.

Cook County Jail detainees worried their tiers will be overtaken by COVID-19 have started refusing regular food and demanding better conditions, the Tribune has learned, a development sheriff’s ...

Relatives of a Cook County Jail inmate who died Monday are calling on the Illinois State Police to complete a “full and fair investigation” of his death in custody. Michael O’Conn… ...

CHICAGO — A detainee from the Cook County jail is back in custody after he escaped this afternoon 18 year-old Jordan Cook escaped police custody before he was supposed to board a bus back to … ...