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 ...

A former Cook County man residing in Davenport has been arrested for allegedly trafficking in large amounts of cocaine base, ...

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 ...

How the programs work An electronic monitoring device sits on a table at the discharge facility in the basement of Division V at the Cook County Jail, April, 12 2018, in Chicago. (Armando L.