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 ...

Jarvis Wright, who has been detained at Cook County for two years, said he’s a reader but had never been in a book club before. The 30-year-old reads at night when it’s quiet at the jail.

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.

CHICAGO — A woman who allegedly smuggled opioid-soaked papers into Cook County Jail is the 39th person to smuggle or possess drug papers at the jail so far this year. On April 25, Jada Henry, of ...

CHICAGO | A former Cook County correctional officer was convicted Thursday for his role in helping six inmates escape from Cook County Jail in 2006 in a plot to influence the primary race for ...

A 27-year-old Chicago woman has been charged with smuggling drug-soaked paper into Cook County Jail during a ... in the back of the inmate’s uniform during a hug, according to the Cook County ...

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.

CHICAGO — A woman who allegedly smuggled opioid-soaked papers into Cook County Jail is the 39th person to smuggle or possess drug papers at the jail so far this year. On April 25, Jada Henry, of ...

Chicago’s most active voting precinct has an unlikely cornerstone. A big chunk of its voters don’t cast ballots at an elementary school gym or a library — they vote from jail. Voting at the ...