Cook County Jail

  • Burke and Snelling celebrate gun felony program, while people are forced to arm themselves for their own protection

    Burke and Snelling celebrate gun felony program, while people are forced to arm themselves for their own protection

    On November 21st, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen Burke gleefully announced the city-wide expansion of the Felony Review bypass program. Originally a pilot program launched in the predominantly Black Englewood and Calumet districts, the program allows CPD to directly file felony gun possession charges without the approval of the State’s Attorney’s office. In a statement […]

  • Notes on O22 from Inside CCJ

    Notes on O22 from Inside CCJ

    A letter from participants of the October 22nd National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality inside Cook County Jail When we dare to struggle, we dare to win, and we either STAND for something of FALL for anything. To all the men and women apart of this revolutionay struggle, remain resilient and dedicated to the […]

  • DCFS: Department of Child Abuse and Family Separation

    DCFS: Department of Child Abuse and Family Separation

    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 facility to another with little explanation—all while awaiting placement in foster […]