The Chicago Police Department committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017, but the city is fighting their release in court.

Jesse Guth, an attorney and former county prosecutor retained by Ulmer’s family, said Ulmer’s family is “shocked and outraged” by his death. “Cory’s family and the people of Cook County deserve no ...

Dying on Dart’s Watch 2023 was the deadliest year in the Cook County Jail on record, with 18 deaths, many of them from drug overdoses. An Injustice Watch investigation found lapses in supervision and ...

Off-duty Chicago police officers fill rows of seats to protest the potential parole of an inmate convicted in the 1970 killing of two Chicago officers, at a Prisoner Review Board meeting in June.

Five years ago, Latinx politicians were a united front calling for diversity in the judiciary and lambasting then-Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke for appointing a white judge to a ...

2023 was the deadliest year at the Cook County Jail in decades More people died last year than in any year since 2013, when the jail population was twice as high. As a percentage of the jail’s average ...

View the interactive version of our investigation here. Editor’s note: Injustice Watch staff and interns have been examining the inequities in how people are treated at different points in the ...

This is the second part of an Injustice Watch report on the questions surrounding the conviction of Lamonte McIntyre in a 1994 double murder. The case has raised doubts not only about the conviction, ...

As the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board investigates powerful Cook County Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr. for claiming improper property tax exemptions in another county, an Injustice Watch examination ...

The U visa program was created as part of larger legislation aimed at curbing human trafficking and violence against women. But many of the certifications denied by CPD have been for victims of the ...

Despite the powerful role judges play in communities, many voters will ignore many or all of the contests altogether. And if history is a guide, many people who do vote know little about the ...

Update: This is the first of three reports on the case of a Kansas City man who spent 23 years in prison despite substantial evidence that he is innocent and only was convicted because of a flawed ...