A Cook County judge just rewired a big piece of Chicago’s police-oversight machinery, ruling Wednesday that Illinois law does allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate fatal ...

Text messages appeared to show a former Lake County Community Corrections officer was in a sexual relationship with a work ...

On Nov. 17, a Chicago man with 72 prior arrests and wearing a court-ordered ankle bracelet to monitor his whereabouts poured ...

A jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of murdering a Cook County judge, following a seven-day trial during which prosecutors said the assailants watched the judge and his girlfriend for days before ...

A jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of murdering a Cook County judge, following a seven-day trial during which prosecutors said the assailants watched the judge and his girlfriend for days ...

More than 1,700 offenders in Ohio are missing from post-release supervision, including a Franklin County man who was in prison for the fatal beating of an 8-month-old ...

Medicaid resources for the behavioral health conditions of jail inmates could be available up to 90 days prior to their ...

Chicago and Cook County saw another steep decline in fatal opioid overdoses last year, records show, four years after a recent peak in such cases during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2025 ...

Although many of them had criminal records, most people who died in custody had not been convicted of the crime they were in jail for, court records show.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office is reporting a significant decline in the number of homicides and opioid overdose deaths in 2025. Additionally, the agency is reporting a 4.2% drop in the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Crockett County inmate was found unresponsive in a cell and pronounced dead at a hospital Thursday morning, according to the Crockett County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office ...