Early in the morning outside Cook County Jail, a group of new detainees stepped out of a Chicago police wagon and walked bleary-eyed into the bright sunlight before lining up inside against a brick ...
Illinois is examining Martinez Duncan’s death for potential criminal behavior by jail staff, according to the Cook County ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cassandra Greer-Lee lost her husband, Nickolas Lee, to COVID-19 in April 2020 while he was incarcerated in Chicago’s Cook County ...
Illinois abolished cash bail and drove down the population at the Cook County jail. Under the county’s top prosecutor, it’s ...
Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich joined detainees at the Cook County Jail on Christmas morning to celebrate Mass and urge them to put aside fear and embrace their humanity. “It’s important for us to ...
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Annette Roberts read a page from a children’s book, then carefully turned it toward a laptop camera to show its pictures. “My mama, she’s been sick since I was very small,” Roberts read from “See You ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The first set of positive coronavirus tests were reported Monday at Cook County Jail. The jail started screening incoming prisoners for COVID-19 in January, and managed to keep the ...
Cassandra Greer-Lee lost her husband, Nickolas Lee, to COVID-19 in April 2020 while he was incarcerated in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S. Lee was just the third ...