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A girl missing since she was a 1-month-old infant in 2021 has been found safe in Chicago, according to police.
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 ...
Chicago’s Cook County Jail once had a population of roughly 10,000 detainees and was often cited for overcrowding. Now that number is down to around 4,200, an all-time low, according to the Cook ...
A correctional officer at the Cook County Jail was injured Friday. The Chicago Fire Department said they responded to the jail just before 7:30 p.m. A correctional officer was transported to ...
Early in the morning outside Cook County Jail, a group of new detainees stepped out of a Chicago police wagon and walked bleary-eyed into the bright sunlight before lining up inside against a ...
Donation Options Search Search Search Cook County Jail detainee numbers peaked in ... president of the nonprofit Civic Federation, a Chicago area government budget watchdog.
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 ...
An inmates at the Cook County, Ill., jail takes his covered ballot to be cast at the jail's Division 11 Chapel after voting in a local election on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, in Chicago. The ...
After the voting information session, Hannah Kaplan, a University of Chicago public policy masters student who also volunteered, called it “crazy” that the Cook County Jail became the first in ...
The Cook County Jail, with more than 5,500 inmates and detainees ... We'll catch you up on the news you need to know with the Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. Despite that ruling, voting rights ...
Officials from the federation and corrections agencies across the globe visited Chicago for federation ... the airy chapel of the Cook County Jail’s Division 11. The relative noisiness did ...