A 24-year-old man being held in Cook County Jail died Thursday evening after a fire broke out in his cell inside the facility ...

After the fire was put out, Martinez Duncan, 24, was removed from the cell and brought to a holding area where he became ...

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office announced that Martinez Duncan died after a fire broke out in the jail’s residential ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County sheriff's office was slapped with a federal excessive force lawsuit Thursday by an inmate who was beaten by a corrections officer. The video shows Randall Brown being ...

A lit, toilet-paper roll wick commonly used to smoke drugs is believed to have caused the fire, Cook County jail officials said.

We speak with the reporter who investigated the 18 inmate deaths in 2023 — and get an update from the Cook County Sheriff’s Department. The year 2023 was a deadly one at the Cook County Jail. Eighteen ...

An inmate at Cook County Jail died last week after a fire inside his cell, sheriff's officials said. Around 7:15 p.m.