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.

The union representing the Cook County Sheriff's Office is demanding an investigation after a Department of Corrections ...

Federal prosecutors allege that a man on parole for a federal drug conviction participated in a brazen ambush slaying on the South Side in January after following the victim home from the Cook County ...

The son of a man beaten to death in the McMinn County Jail after a 2018 DUI arrest has filed a $25 million wrongful death ...

Left: Haley Blevins. Right: Jacalyn Cook (Bowie County Jail). Cops in Texas arrested two women after they allegedly beat three children with a dog leash studded with spikes and belts after the ...

CHICAGO — Chicago Police and Cook County prosecutors on Wednesday announced scores of new charges brought against man who allegedly carried out a spate of “serial” killings on the city’s ...

CHICAGO (CN) — Former inmates of the Cook County Jail in Chicago took the county sheriff's office before the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday over the practice of retaining and eventually destroying ...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart wants to get out of the electronic monitoring business. He says because of a provision of the Illinois SAFE-T Act, he is unable to properly ensure public safety.