An inmate at Cook County Jail died last week after a fire inside his cell, sheriff's officials said. Around 7:15 p.m.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office announced that Martinez Duncan died after a fire broke out in the jail’s residential ...

Reviewing her first year in office, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke defends the increased requests for detention and ...

A 24-year-old man being held in Cook County Jail died Thursday evening after a fire broke out in his cell inside the facility ...

Behind the chain-link fence and barbed wire, detainees at the Cook County Jail are busy training man's best friend.

CHICAGO - Twenty Cook County Jail inmates accused of letting their fingers do some illegal walking with the telephone are now in even more trouble. An alleged scam in which inmates placed collect ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County sheriff's office was slapped with a federal excessive force lawsuit Thursday by an inmate who was beaten by a corrections officer. The video shows Randall Brown being ...

Sheriff Tom Dart’s Urban Farm Initiative at the Cook County jail has introduced composting to its existing garden.

After the fire was put out, Martinez Duncan, 24, was removed from the cell and brought to a holding area where he became ...