CHICAGO (CBS) --Sixteen inmates at Cook County Jail have been indicted for their involvement in a large brawl in a maximum security tier earlier this month. Cook County Sheriff's officials said ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- In an unorthodox approach to fighting violence in Chicago, a motivational speaker is taking a message directly to the maximum-security inmates at the Cook County Jail. As CBS 2's ...

Chicago’s most active voting precinct ... not currently serving a sentence — which includes nearly all Cook County Jail inmates, the vast majority of whom have not yet faced trial and who ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The most dangerous section of Cook County jail lived up to its reputation earlier this month during a free-for-all and now 16 inmates are charged with mob action as a result.

CHICAGO — Deep within the Cook County ... Mental health care for inmates at the Cook County jail begins on the first floor of the five-story Residential Treatment Unit, where those in its ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- An inmate whose beating ... Freedom of Information Act show that Ortiz assaulted 10 other Cook County Jail inmates in the 13 months following the Bolton attack.

An inmate was beaten to death Tuesday morning inside the hospital wing of Cook County Jail, the sheriff’s office ... the statement said, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He was taken to Mount ...

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, Illinois (WBBM) — In an unorthodox approach to fighting violence in Chicago, a motivational speaker is taking a message directly to the maximum-security inmates at the Cook County Jail.