
Inmates write about conditions at CCJ The following is a letter sent to Dare to Struggle – Chicago from a group of inmates inside Cook County Jail’s Division 11. Inmates have requested the letter be published in full to further expose conditions inside the…

Children abandoned in dingy juvenile cells amidst a mental health crisis, left to rot in fluorescent-lit cubicle offices overnight with strangers, dumped in emergency rooms and deprieved of access to adequate medical care, and cuffed in full-body shackles as they are displaced from one…

On June 5th, Krystal Rivera was gunned down by a fellow pig in the Chicago Police Department (CPD). According to the cops, Rivera and her partner, Carlos Baker, were conducting an “investigatory stop” (CPD’s new age term for stop and frisk) in the southside Chatham…