CHICAGO (CBS)-- Eight detainees have been charged with lighting their uniforms on fire last month at the Cook County Jail. The men were in Division 9, the jail's super maximum security division ...

Cook County officials are taking another step in reform efforts which they say led to the elimination of cash bond in ...

At Cook County Jail, behind locked doors, barricades, fences and razor wire, in a barren room, about 40 men sat in tan county jail uniforms, unwrapping their innermost feelings, fears and ...

Voting at the Cook County Jail has risen ... has the right to vote expresses that right,” undergraduate Estrella Hernandez told the two dozen inmates wearing the jail’s loose, khaki uniforms.

Authorities said he broke into a corrections officer's locker, stole the uniform and walked out of the jail, not questioned by anyone. It was the first Cook County Jail escape in 10 years.