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On or around March 11, 2021, Iver D. Short died while incarcerated at Cook County Jail. Mr. Short was 52 years old and was detained for less than 48 hours. On March 11, 2021, Judge Charles Beach [...]

The union representing guards at Cook County Jail is calling for their members to be first in line for the COVID-19 vaccine, yet has made no similar calls for the vaccination of people who are [...]

More than 200 people incarcerated in Cook County Jail are currently infected with COVID-19. The number of people incarcerated in the jail who have tested positive for the virus has more than [...]

Yesterday, Harold Graszer died after having contracted COVID-19 in Cook County Jail. He was 85 years old, and he is now the eighth person to die from COVID-19 while in the custody of Cook County [...]

On Friday, CCBF mailed approximately 3,000 stimulus check applications from people incarcerated in Cook County Jail! The previous week, we printed and distributed 5,600 applications, enough to [...]

On September 9, 2020, the Budget for Black Lives Coalition put forth a proposal that the county divest $157 million from the Sheriff’s Office and invest that money equitably into public [...]

On September 17, 2020, James Sonntag was found dead in his cell at Cook County Jail. His cause of death is presumed to be suicide. Mr. Sonntag had been in the jail’s custody for only three days [...]

In a landmark ruling today, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals largely sided with plaintiffs in the Mays vs. Dart lawsuit challenging the conditions inside Cook County Jail during the COVID-19 [...]

The “Justice for Black Lives” resolution was passed by the Cook County Board of Commissioners today! This is an important first step in the fight to defund Cook County Jail and invest [...]

Yesterday, on July 23, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Plaintiffs in the Williams v. Dart class action lawsuit filed in February 2018 by Thedford Garber Law on [...]