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As of today, the number of people incarcerated at Cook County Jail has reached a new historic low.  There are currently 5,750 people incarcerated at CCJ. When we began this work in 2015, [...]

This image was pulled from Snapchat and shared by La Villita, Chicago. We are alarmed that Sheriff Tom Dart appears to have incarcerated people outside Cook County Jail and shoveling snow without [...]

On December 17, 2018, two Chicago police officers were struck by a Metra train and killed. Police allege that they were pursuing Edward Brown, a 24-year old Black man who had never been arrested [...]

Today, there are 5,888 people incarcerated in Cook County Jail. Of those people, at least 2,500 are being held pretrial simply because they can’t afford to pay a money bail. A recent report [...]