The state requires jails to report when they use restraint chairs. For nearly 900 cases from 2019 to 2023, Cook County Jail ...

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

One of several examples the U.S. Department of Justice gave of how federal officials have been obstructed by Illinois’ ...

The Cook County sheriff's office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge ...

State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has instructed her lawyers to object every time electronic monitoring is imposed. Chief Judge Timothy Evans' office has acknowledged it will need more than 150 ...