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 ...

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)-- 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 ...

The office of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot did not ... “there were no safeguards” for inmates at Cook County Jail and said guards didn’t “give a f*** if all of the people there had died.” ...

An inmate in a wheelchair can remove ... short distances while locked up in Division 2 of the Cook County Jail. | Jessica Koscielniak / Chicago Sun-Times In 1999, Bramlett was locked up for ...

Ashok Selvam is the regional editor for Eater Midwest and in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He's a native Chicagoan and has been with Eater since 2014. Officials in ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Just eight classes into a music education course at Cook County Jail, inmate D’Andre Morris already looked like a professional. Using an Apple computer connected to two subwoofers ...

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.