by Mike Pierga | Aug 12, 2016 | Press Release
A maximum security individual in custody has been charged again with aggravated battery to staff after a Sheriff’s Office investigation found that the individual in custody threw feces at a correctional deputy for the second time within a week, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart...
by Mike Pierga | Aug 10, 2016 | Press Release
More than 1,300 sex buyers – a record – were arrested across 18 states in this summer’s National Johns Suppression Initiative aimed at reducing sex trafficking, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. The operation by a national coalition of law...
by Mike Pierga | Aug 8, 2016 | Press Release
People arrested for minor traffic offenses and small-volume drug cases will no longer spend months in Cook County Jail under legislation Gov. Bruce Rauner signed Friday. Following last year’s successful “Rocket Docket” pilot project designed to move non-violent...
by Mike Pierga | Aug 5, 2016 | Press Release
Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart has released additional video in which individuals in custody took control of a jail housing unit and injured another individual in custody. According to the Sheriff’s Office investigation, at approximately 4:30 p.m. July 28,...
by Mike Pierga | Aug 3, 2016 | Press Release
A Cook County Jail individual in custody has been charged with aggravated battery to staff after an investigation found he threw feces and struck a Cook County correctional deputy, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today. According to a Sheriff’s Office investigation...