After a decline following statewide bail reform — and years of reductions prior to that — the county’s jail population has ...

Reed said the county's jail only holds between 10 to 15 inmates ... This means staff are constantly rotating inmates to use ...

On April 1, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office began shuttering one of the country’s largest and most restrictive electronic ...

depicting a sick person huddled on the asphalt while a nearby building burns. One of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the country occurred here in the Cook County Jail, with around 800 cases.

DePaul’s class this quarter is about homelessness. A group of students sit in a big circle in the basement of Chicago’s Cook County Jail, listening in rapt attention to DePaul University ...