One day after he was sworn in, new Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach said he is ordering an urgent review of the county's ...

Changes are coming to the Cook County court system’s troubled electronic monitoring program. State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill ...

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

Speaking at the City Club of Chicago on Tuesday to mark her first year as the county’s top prosecutor, O’Neill Burke said her ...

Jail officials said that enforcing boundaries between staff and inmates is critical to maintaining order and minimizing ...

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

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

Inmates with a history of drug use are at particular risk of dying from untreated sepsis in US prisons and jails, USA TODAY ...

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

UPDATE, 11:45 a.m.: Morgan City Police have lifted the lockdown of the Morgan City schools. Officials said the person of interest could not be found in the area. UPDATE: Morgan City Schools on the ...