The Chicago Police Department committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017, but the city is fighting their release in court.

A man died at the Cook County Jail last Friday following a confrontation with correctional officers in which he was beaten, body-slammed, and injected with sedatives, records show. Cory Ulmer, 41, ...

Cook County Jail’s deadliest year in decades reveals repeated lapses and failed oversight Eighteen people died at the jail last year, and half of the deaths featured examples of inadequate supervision ...

A state board uses an arbitrary and opaque process to decide whether prisoners convicted of committing violent crimes decades ago should be released, an Injustice Watch review has found. The process ...

Last year was the deadliest at the jail in decades. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart blames drugs being smuggled in.

Criminal Courts Illinois changed its controversial ‘felony murder rule.’ Here’s who the reform left behind.

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Newsrooms are moving away from privileging police accounts over those of police violence victims.

Illinois’ prosecutor-initiated resentencing law was supposed to be a progressive policy win. So far, it’s yielded no winners.

It commonly takes years to act against judges who violate the Illinois Code of Judicial Conduct, and the punishment seldom is more than a public reprimand, Injustice Watch's first investigation found.

Chicago police are required by law to report every traffic stop. But a new investigation found one-third of traffic stops went unreported.