Surveillance footage obtained by WGN News shows an inmate being beaten for nearly a minute at Cook County Jail last year. The correctional officer accused of the beating has been charged.

One solution that's been proposed is having the jail hold some detainees from the Cook County Department of Corrections. "It is lucrative for the county. They're going to have to maintain this ...

She was a 20-year veteran of the Cook County Department of Corrections and assigned to Cermak Health Services at the time of her death. WGN's Dana Rebik provides an update on the case from the ...