Cook County Jail

The suspect in an attack at a CTA Red Line stop was taken back into custody eight days after he was released by mistake, authorities say.

The suspect in an attack at a CTA Red Line stop was taken back into custody eight days after he was released by mistake, authorities say. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

Chicago police were scrambling Wednesday to find an aggravated battery suspect who was already in custody, but released because his charging information apparently was never entered into the system.

Chicago police were scrambling Wednesday to find an aggravated battery suspect who was already in custody, but released because his charging information apparently was never entered into the system. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

Approximately 59 shell casings were found scattered at the scene where a rapper was fatally shot as he was being released from Cook County Jail on electronic monitoring over the weekend, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said Tuesday.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city is “very focused” on what happened when a man who was apparently ambushed after being released from the Cook County Jail suffered as many as 64 bullet wounds.

A man who was apparently ambushed after being released from the Cook County Jail in Chicago suffered as many as 64 bullet wounds to his head and other parts of his body, police said.

Police say a man who was apparently ambushed after being released from the Cook County Jail in Chicago suffered as many as 64 bullet wounds to his head and other parts of his body

A Harvey woman planned to posted bond for multiple Cook County Jail inmates on Father’s Day, allowing them to spend the day at home with loved ones. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen reports.

More than 2,600 people have been in custody at the Cook County Jail or at home on electronic monitoring for more than a year as a massive backlog of felony cases has piled up at the Cook County Circuit Court.

Inmates at the Cook County Jail who’ve received the COVID-19 vaccine can welcome visitors in person starting Sunday, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday, citing declining infection rates and a low number of positive cases. In-person visits were suspended at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, but in June resumed at an outdoor location at the...

Authorities at Cook County Jail are searching for coronavirus clues in the unlikeliest of places: the sewers. “You know, I wanted to get as far out front of determining what the positivity rrate was in the jail,” Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart told NBC5. “It’s just a proactive thing that I really wanted to do.” The process is complex,...

The Cook County sheriff’s office announced Sunday it will be suspending in-person visits at the Cook County Jail in hopes of warding off another coronavirus outbreak as cases rise across the county. The suspension is effective Monday, the sheriff’s office announced, citing the rising case numbers as well as the stay-at-home advisory issued Thursday for Chicago and suburban Cook County. “For...

Most of the three-quarters of a million people held in U.S. jails have the right to vote

Earlier this year the Cook County Jail was a hotspot of new coronavirus cases, but today the CDC is crediting the facility for a big turnaround to keep inmates and employees safe. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

Fewer people have tested positive for the coronavirus over the past month at Cook County Jail, officials announced Friday. The rate of positive COVID-19 tests has gone from 97% to less than 10% since March, Cook County Health officials said in a statement. Since May 8, most of the new cases have come from detainees entering the jail, rather than…

A detainee accused of buying his way out of Cook County Jail and leading authorities on a week-long manhunt has committed an offense that “cuts directly to the integrity of the judicial system,” Judge David Navarro said Monday.

The FBI is offering a $2000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a detainee who escaped the Cook County Jail by disguising himself as another inmate.

A seventh detainee at Cook County Jail has died from apparent complications related to the coronavirus. William Sobczyk, 53, died Monday at Stroger Hospital, where he had been hospitalized since April 18 after developing complications from COVID-19, the Cook County sheriff’s office said in a statement. An autopsy found he died of pneumonia and a COVID-19 infection, with hypertension and…

A detainee escaped from Cook County Jail over the weekend after disguising himself as another detainee about to be discharged, authorities say. Jahquez Scott allegedly promised to pay Quintin Henderson $1,000 to agree to let him steal his identity to secure release, according to Cook County sheriff’s office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari. The alleged plot took place the evening of May…