A substitute teacher recently fired by the Chicago Archdiocese is facing felony charges of aggravaged criminal sexual abuse ...

Chicago businessman Willie Wilson has donated $15,000 to inmates at Cook County Jail, in an effort to give them hope for the ...

Changes are coming to Cook County's electronic monitoring system starting this weekend. They are aimed at making the system ...

Drivers pulled over for traffic violations in a growing number of Cook County suburbs will be able to pay tickets online for the first time.

The Cook County chief judge’s office has toughened protocols around its electronic monitoring program, making changes in the wake of high profile incidents and as the office’s monitored population ...

Robert Ellis, 67, was charged with presenting a badge from a fake police agency when he applied for a license plate at the Illinois Secretary of State's office in 2021. After a judge acquitted him, he ...

A 59-year-old prisoner told corrections officers he fell to the floor, striking his head, and briefly lost consciousness ...

Jeremiah Jermaine Coffey, 22, died in the Oklahoma County jail on Jan. 21. Why did the jail not reveal it until Jan. 30?

Jail administrators fail to fix mistakes that continue to cost lives, an analysis of state records by The Marshall Project - ...

A Lake County man found guilty of sexually assaulting a person in Deerfield, who had a previous sex conviction in Cook County, has been sentenced to mandatory natural life in prison.

Caged in a cell, Jerad Traylor struggled to breathe and cried out for help, pleading that he felt like he was dying. And it turned out his feelings of despair were exactly right. Four days after his ...