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A new federal lawsuit accuses the Cook County Sheriff's Office of violating the rights of detainees by monitoring them through video cameras while they…
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Five Cook County Jail inmates who applauded as the man charged with the fatal shooting of a Chicago police commander was led by their cell could face…
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The Cook County Jail is no longer under federal monitoring after a federal judge lifted a consent decree. A 2008 Department of Justice report found the…
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Duante Browner was booked into the Cook County Jail for aggravated domestic battery in March 2015. Seven months later — while serving time at a state…
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Officials say a brawl at the Cook County Jail left five inmates hospitalized with injuries that were apparently inflicted by makeshift weapons.Jail…
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The sheriff who oversees one of the nation's most crowded jails has voluntarily released video showing half a dozen incidents of excessive force by…