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