Cutting Illinois’ Prison Population Won’t Mean More Crime, A New Report Says
A new study has found that long-term crime trends are driven by economic and demographic factors, like unemployment and teen pregnancy, and not by incarceration.
A new study has found that long-term crime trends are driven by economic and demographic factors, like unemployment and teen pregnancy, and not by incarceration.
More than 1,500 inmates and prison staff have died from from the coronavirus so far, according to a UCLA study.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who runs the jail, said Thursday he needs help reducing the jail’s population to slow COVID-19 spread.
Cook County’s reform-minded prosecutor faced a law-and-order challenge from a white candidate in the midst of a crime spike.
Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Antioch, Ill., is accused of fatally shooting two people during a Wisconsin protest. The court commissioner who set the bail called him a flight risk.
WGN took a closer look at the rising number of people on electronic monitoring and how hundreds of participants are going AWOL.
Waukegan officials say the police officer who fatally shot Marcellis Stinnette didn’t turn on his body camera until after the shooting.
The former Cook County judge and prosecutor is hoping to unseat incumbent Kim Foxx on Election Day.
With less than a week until Election Day, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx joins Reset to discuss her reelection bid.
Relatives of George Floyd and Jacob Blake, two other Black men shot by police recently in Minneapolis and Kenosha, joined the Sunday vigil.