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 demanding punitive damages. The 73-page suit ...

Jesse Guth, an attorney and former county prosecutor retained by Ulmer’s family, said Ulmer’s family is “shocked and outraged” by his death. “Cory’s family and the people of Cook County deserve no ...

Dying on Dart’s Watch 2023 was the deadliest year in the Cook County Jail on record, with 18 deaths, many of them from drug overdoses. An Injustice Watch investigation found lapses in supervision and ...

Off-duty Chicago police officers fill rows of seats to protest the potential parole of an inmate convicted in the 1970 killing of two Chicago officers, at a Prisoner Review Board meeting in June.

Five years ago, Latinx politicians were a united front calling for diversity in the judiciary and lambasting then-Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke for appointing a white judge to a ...

Among the original 15 subcircuits, four had been drawn with a majority-Black population and two — the 14th Subcircuit on the Southwest Side of Chicago and the 6th Subcircuit on the Northwest Side — ...

Dozens of cases like Borik’s examined by Injustice Watch during a four-month investigation reveal a failed system to protect older adults from financial exploitation, even as a “silver tsunami” of ...

2023 was the deadliest year at the Cook County Jail in decades More people died last year than in any year since 2013, when the jail population was twice as high. As a percentage of the jail’s average ...

Gerald Berry is serving a life sentence for murder, even though he didn’t kill anyone. On Dec. 27, 2001, Berry said he and three friends drove to Country Club Hills, Illinois, in Chicago’s south ...

Journalism plays an influential role in uncovering and framing state violence and systemic oppression. But journalists also have a history of stoking the trauma and disrespect suffered by families ...

That the state’s experiment with resentencing started with just three of Illinois’ nearly 28,000 incarcerated people is not out of line with prosecutors’ initial forays into using these new powers ...

Beset by too many cases and too little money, Illinois officials are struggling with their constitutional responsibility to investigate and punish errant judges. It commonly takes years to act against ...