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Chicago police arrest Hyde Park man in connection with assault that injured 7 officers

May 10, 2020 at 5:39 p.m.

A South Side man injured several police officers in a scuffle at a South Loop storage facility, Cook County prosecutors said Sunday. An employee of the storage facility in the...

Southwest Side man charged with murder says he was acting in self-defense after his son was followed from gas station

May 10, 2020 at 4:48 p.m.

A Southwest Side man fatally shot a 16-year-old who had "mean-mugged" his son at a gas station, mistaking him for a rival gang member, prosecutors said Sunday. Steve Kawar, 54,...

A detainee puts her shoe on after receiving an electronic monitoring device prior to being released from the Cook County Jail in 2018.

Lack of ankle monitors keeps defendants behind bars: ‘He’s just kind of stuck there’

May 8, 2020 at 5:38 p.m.

After overcoming what felt like a thousand hurdles, Candina Crane's son Christopher was finally scheduled for release from Cook County Jail on an ankle monitor this week. "Tuesday night he...

Joseph "Jose" Banks and his cellmate escaped the Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop in 2012 using a rope of sheets stitched with floss.

Parolee who allegedly pulled identity switch to walk out of Cook County Jail joins roll of creative escapes

May 8, 2020 at 11:34 a.m.

Jahquez Scott approached Quintin Henderson in a dingy jailhouse receiving tunnel, authorities said, and made a proposition. Within days, Scott was a fugitive with multiple warrants hanging over his head...

Devices for electronic monitoring run out in Cook County amid efforts to drastically reduce jail population

May 7, 2020 at 8:43 p.m.

The Cook County sheriff's office has run out of electronic monitoring devices for defendants placed on home confinement, the office confirmed Thursday. The concerted efforts to reduce jail population amid...

Parolee swaps identities with another inmate, walks out of Cook County Jail in mask covering distinctive face tattoos

May 6, 2020 at 5:43 p.m.

Having received a personal recognizance I-bond for a felony drug charge from a judge on Saturday, Quintin Henderson was set to head home that evening — that is, until a...

A pedestrian crosses the street outside the Cook County juvenile detention center on April 30, 2020, in Chicago.

Frustration reigns amid efforts to get youths out of Cook County’s juvenile detention center before virus hits

May 4, 2020 at 7:56 p.m.

In early April, McKisha Davis' 17-year-old son sent her a text. "It feel like I have a short breath," he wrote. Davis, fearing the worst, asked where he was. "Are...

Ana McCullom and a coalition of activists from across the Chicago area protest in a caravan of vehicles to slow traffic outside the Cook County Jail calling for the mass release of incarcerated people in the state of Illinois to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 on April 7, 2020.

Two sides in federal lawsuit over conditions at Cook County Jail spar again over COVID-19 response at the complex

April 23, 2020 at 6:09 p.m.

The assistant director of Cook County Jail testified in federal court Thursday that more than 175 tiers in the sprawling facility have been transitioned to single-cell housing to help stem...

Correctional officer at Cook County Jail dies from COVID-19, death of second officer under investigation

April 21, 2020 at 10:09 a.m.

A correctional officer at the Cook County Jail has died from complications caused by COVID-19, and the sheriff's office said it is awaiting tests to determine if a second officer...

Protesters drive in a caravan in front of Cook County Jail calling for the release of detainees in state facilities on April 7, 2020.

Inmate’s long fight with criminal justice system ends in coronavirus death

April 20, 2020 at 3:31 p.m.

Jeffrey Pendleton spent much of his adult life in a cell. His record, including a conviction for a nightmarish rape, stretches back decades. By his 59th birthday last month, he...

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