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A Chicago jail has started offering gourmet Italian pizzas to inmates. For the past few weeks, inmates have been able to order a pizza made by fellow…
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Cook County prosecutors will no longer oppose the release of some detainees who are held on nonviolent offenses because they can't afford to pay cash…
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A newly filed lawsuit says thousands of poor, largely African-American inmates are being held improperly at the Cook County jail because they cannot…
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Cook County's sheriff has named a clinical psychologist to run the jail in Chicago, saying he believes she's the first mental health professional to run a…
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Top officials say they're encouraged by the falling numbers of people held in the Cook County Jail but say far too many people remain locked up for months…