The Chicago Police Department committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017, but the city is fighting their release in court.

The family of a man who died in Cook County Jail last year after he was beaten by guards is suing Sheriff Tom Dart alleging civil rights violations and ...

A man died at the Cook County Jail last Friday following a confrontation with correctional officers in which he was beaten, body-slammed, and injected with sedatives, records show. Cory Ulmer, 41, ...

Cook County Jail’s deadliest year in decades reveals repeated lapses and failed oversight Eighteen people died at the jail last year, and half of the deaths featured examples of inadequate supervision ...

A state board uses an arbitrary and opaque process to decide whether prisoners convicted of committing violent crimes decades ago should be released, an Injustice Watch review has found. The process ...

Illinois Supreme Court race raises questions about ethnic representation on the highest court and whose experience counts as Latinx.

In the 14th Subcircuit, two judicial candidates with similar upbringings present distinct visions for what community representation on the bench looks like.

Cases are near an all-time high, while arrests and prosecutions have plummeted. Meanwhile, many older adults, like 91-year-old Paul Borik, are losing their life savings as social service caseworkers ...

Last year was the deadliest at the jail in decades. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart blames drugs being smuggled in.

Criminal Courts Illinois changed its controversial ‘felony murder rule.’ Here’s who the reform left behind.

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Newsrooms are moving away from privileging police accounts over those of police violence victims.