Earlier this month, at around 4:30 a.m., Chicago police officers noticed a car with a broken headlight and initiated a stop. The officers spotted a black bag on the floorboard, felt an L-shaped object ...

After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new electronic monitoring participants, marking the beginning of a shift in one way ...

The office said they are reviewing all actions taken in the case, in which a man on electronic monitoring is accused of setting a woman on fire on the train.

An alleged murder-suicide last year in west suburban Villa Park could have been prevented if not for oversights by law enforcement and the company that supplies and runs electronic monitoring in the ...

Lavette Mayes had already spent 425 days locked up in the Cook County jail when she found herself in front of a judge in 2016. The Chicago Community Bond Fund had just helped her buy her freedom, and ...

A 2014 “Stop the Raids” rally outside the ICE Office in Milwaukee. (Photo by Joe Brusky / CC BY-NC 2.0) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - An electronic monitoring company whose performance regarding a murder defendant has come under scrutiny has been banned from handling cases before Mobile County District Judge ...

Under the Act, a resident of a Facility subject to the Act, or a resident’s representative, including a healthcare agent or agent acting pursuant to a durable power of attorney, a court appointed ...