The former Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center employee is charged with two felonies for allegedly throwing a boy ...

While youth arrests are way down, Chicago has failed to fix its long-broken approach to providing support for kids who get arrested, lagging far behind mayoral promises and serving only a fraction of ...

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix ...

This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity. When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ...

Gerald Berry, 16 in this photo, holding his baby brother Kendrick. Berry is serving life in prison on a felony murder conviction. (Photo courtesy of Dorothea Ford) Gerald Berry is serving a life ...

An innocent St. Louis man was wrongly convicted of murder in 1995 after police fabricated trial evidence and prosecutors hid information from defense attorneys, the St. Louis prosecutor contends in a ...

Leonard Dixon has run the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center — one of the largest youth jails in the country — for a decade. Records and interviews suggest he might not live in Chicago ...

Griselda Vega Samuel, left, and Steve Demitro campaign on Chicago’s Southwest Side as they compete for a 14th Subcircuit seat on the Cook County Circuit Court. Credit: Photos by Alejandra Cancino and ...

Still in prison after 18 years despite the flimsy evidence of his guilt, Kevin Jackson tore open the letter from the Cook County conviction integrity unit — a squad in the prosecutor’s office set up ...

Black people are now incarcerated in the Cook County Jail at more than 17 times the rate of white people, according to an analysis of jail population and census data by The Circuit. As the number of ...

When he announced his candidacy for Cook County judge, Chicago Police Lt. John D. Poulos touted the opportunity to “continue my public service, which spans 23 years.” It’s a career mired in ...