Data obtained by Illinois Answers Project shows Cook County Jail used restraint chairs nearly 900 times in five years.

Chicago and Cook County officials continue to push back against the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging migrant ...

A 21-year-old from Palmyra has been sentenced to jail time after he was caught street racing in northern Albemarle County ...

SPRINGFIELD — South Dakota needs a new prison. How large it ought to be or where are open questions, but a work group ...

It’s overcrowded, outdated and unsafe, he said, citing the case of a correctional officer ... 1,500-bed men’s facility on a controversial Lincoln County site during this year’s legislative ...

Going out to eat? See which Palm Beach County restaurants were rated best by inspectors, and which failed the test.

A pair of Cook County Jail detainees are alleging sheriff’s deputies encouraged a third inmate to tie them up and sexually ...

One of the clubs is reading the book Dead Man Walking, and last month they got a visit from the book’s author: famed ...

The Oklahoma County Detention Center had two jail deaths only 24 hours apart, one was after a fight, and the other was still ...