Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar and his team face mounting criticism about the jail. During a tour, they showed how they're working to make fixes.

Cook County prosecutors have dropped all charges against a man who spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Cook County's Sheriff will transfer control of the Electronic Monitoring Program to the Adult Probation Department Pretrial ...

In a predominantly Black area of Chicago, police can now directly file gun charges without a prosecutor’s approval. The new ...

The patient died of natural causes on Oct. 13, about one month after Williams was hired as a live-in nurse, Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook said. “Our detectives launched a fraud investigation ...

But Maki pointed out that the Cook County Jail is still being watched by a federal monitor,in large part because of longstanding overcrowding. The jail for decades has been under the eyes of the ...

This story is a collaboration between the Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Tribune. Nearly half a billion dollars in taxable real estate value has been added onto the Cook County rolls ...

Six men were recently charged in a Lake County Jail fight on Feb. 3 that left a prisoner with a broken eye socket. Stephon Joiner, Jailin David, Dexter Gilbert Jr., Robert Hudson, Damonte Jones ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The man named as a suspect in his estranged wife's South Loop death was released from jail after paying ... last year. A Cook County judge ordered Beckerink, a former tax attorney ...