A Cook County judge found Kevin Walker not guilty of aggravated battery and official misconduct in a 2023 incident involving a 15-year-old at the juvenile jail.

The former Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center employee is charged with two felonies for allegedly throwing a boy to the ground.

This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix ...

While youth arrests are way down, Chicago has failed to fix its long-broken approach to providing support for kids who get arrested, lagging far behind mayoral promises and serving only a fraction of ...

This is a joint project of Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity. When Cook County sheriff’s deputies burst into the Maywood home of 74-year-old Velma Lewis with a battering ...

Leonard Dixon has run the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center — one of the largest youth jails in the country — for a decade. Records and interviews suggest he might not live in Chicago ...

Griselda Vega Samuel, left, and Steve Demitro campaign on Chicago’s Southwest Side as they compete for a 14th Subcircuit seat on the Cook County Circuit Court. Credit: Photos by Alejandra Cancino and ...

Gerald Berry, 16 in this photo, holding his baby brother Kendrick. Berry is serving life in prison on a felony murder conviction. (Photo courtesy of Dorothea Ford) Gerald Berry is serving a life ...

An innocent St. Louis man was wrongly convicted of murder in 1995 after police fabricated trial evidence and prosecutors hid information from defense attorneys, the St. Louis prosecutor contends in a ...

This story is a collaboration between Injustice Watch and Bolts, a nonprofit publication that covers criminal justice and voting rights in local governments. Renwick Wells and Mickey Mason say Chicago ...

The Clay County Justice Center in Brazil, Indiana. The justice center houses the sheriff’s office and the county jail — the only jail in Indiana that takes in immigrants in ICE custody. County ...