Results tagged “jail”

DNA evidence linked a fifth victim to a postal worker charged with assaulting four other women, Chicago Breaking News reports.

The U.S. Attorney's office filed a report on Cook County Jail today, and their findings are horrific. According to the report, living conditions in the jail violate inmates' human rights.

Cook County inmates are often sent to prisons in other counties—not because of overcrowding, but to maintain prison safety, according to a Cook County sheriff's spokesman.

Wednesday night's shanking at Cook County jail got us wondering: what's like to be in the pokey at 26th and California?

Do we ever get to read good news about Cook County? Probably not until 2010, and even then it's a crap shoot.

An inmate escaped custody at Stroger Hospital this morning, so if you see a dude running around wearing both a Department of Corrections jumpsuit and a cast...call the police.

deplorable.

Lauri Apple (aka Insomnia Jones, JD) took these affecting photos outside the Illinois Youth Center Chicago, a level 3 minimum security facility for juvenile male offenders on Western and Maypole.