At her swearing-in ceremony six months ago, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke promised a tougher approach to ...

A Cook County convicted felon accused of illegally having four loaded firearms on him during a traffic stop in Naperville ...

The satellite location comes after years of neighbors raising concerns about crime around the Roosevelt Green Line station.

Deputy Shannon Cook retires after 25 years at the Butler County Sheriff's Office with a record of bravery and service, ...

“There was once a mutual respect between officers and inmates,” he told The Citizen ... do sign a contract and take a badge.” Russ believes correction officers resent educational programming ...

The Yellowstone County Commission is getting pushback after setting new reimbursement rates for housing state and federal inmates in the county jail. The commission in January passed a pair of ...

Those changes have meant consequences for local county jails. Erie County, for instance, held only two inmates bound for state prison the week the unsanctioned strikes began in February.

CHICAGO - Cook County Hospital, the sprawling institution that inspired TV's "ER" and provided first-class care under Third World conditions for much of the last century, is shutting its doors.

A former prison guard at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women will be incarcerated for five years for having sex with inmates ... according to the Fluvanna County Circuit Clerk’s Office.

The Delta Police Department honored three art students and their instructor at the May 22 School Board meeting for a job well ...