State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has instructed her lawyers to object every time electronic monitoring is imposed. Chief ...

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

After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new ...

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office is expanding a pilot program that lets Chicago police to directly file charges in ...

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

From 7 a.m. on Friday, April 4, to 7 a.m. Saturday, April 5, 2025, 25 people were booked into the Tom Green County Detention ...

"(Office of the Chief Judge) personnel are not law enforcement officers and cannot investigate, seek escape charges, or obtain an arrest warrant ... in the Cook County Jail. It was intended ...

A fugitive wanted in DuPage County on a series of charges was arrested Friday after he was found hiding in the basement of a ...

The Cook County sheriff’s office is ending its decades-old electronic monitoring program, handing it over to the chief judge amid questions about who will arrest violators and how extra staff ...

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself ... meaning they cannot arrest people accused of violating the terms of their release.