Chicago businessman Willie Wilson has donated $15,000 to inmates at Cook County Jail, in an effort to give them hope for the ...

Chicago businessman Willie Wilson has donated $15,000 to inmates at Cook County Jail, in an effort to give them hope for the ...

Inmates are getting the chance to learn a trade to help them find a job when they get out.

A 59-year-old prisoner told corrections officers he fell to the floor, striking his head, and briefly lost consciousness ...

Feeling grievously mistreated by circumstances and abused by prison guards, Illinois prison inmate Jarayan Gills took his ...

Jeremiah Jermaine Coffey, 22, died in the Oklahoma County jail on Jan. 21. Why did the jail not reveal it until Jan. 30?

Feeling grievously mistreated by circumstances and abused by prison guards, Illinois prison inmate Jarayan Gills took his complaints to federal court.

McDonald’s is embracing the trend this Valentine’s Day with a limited-time McNugget Caviar kit. The free kit pairs a ...

A man already serving life for first-degree murder waives a criminal homicide charge to court in the October killing of his ...

Jail officials said inmate housing conditions were not impacted and they do not believe the issue was weather related.

In 1974, the US supreme court ruled that people who are held in jail and have not been convicted of a crime maintain their right to vote. “You’re not even guilty until you’re actually proven guilty,” ...