Shadonna Jones, 54, was charged in August with smuggling drug-soaked paper into the jail. New charges accuse her of giving a ...

A Cook County corrections deputy who was already charged with drug-related offenses is now accused of allowing an inmate to ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Behaviors to Actually Worry About, According to a Child Psychologist Lynx's comeback in WNBA Finals G1 win over Liberty sends ...

Beyond the barbed wire and locked doors at Cook County Jail's Division 11, something significant is happening not many know ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The beating of a Cook County Jail guard by inmates was caught on video this past weekend—and union leaders representing correction officers now have safety concerns. Teamsters ...

Some residents in Cook County are seeing the impacts of long-standing delinquent utility bills after a letter threatens to cut their service. That is, if their delinquent bills are not paid within ...

CHICAGO — A Cook County inmate was indicted after allegedly ... with possessing or smuggling drug-soaked paper into the jail.

An Illinois jail continues to teach democracy behind bars, particularly by showing inmates and detainees how they can vote while incarcerated. Nathaniel Carswell is one of many being temporarily ...

As the Cook County probational correctional officer made his safety rounds Sunday night, he was suddenly sucker-punched by an inmate who then began to stomp on the officer's head. Jesse Jackson ...