Thousands of fires and assaults in Illinois jails went untracked until a new investigation exposed the gaps.

This is the second in a series of seven articles about Illinois county jails. Illinois county jails report thousands of "extraordinary or unusual" incidents every year, but the state doesn't keep ...

This story was originally published by the Illinois Answers Project. A man being held in Sangamon County Jail in the fall of 2024 mixed in with a group getting processed for release and walked out in ...

Thousands of "extraordinary or unusual occurrences" are reported in Illinois county jails each year. A state monitoring unit reviews only a small fraction of these reported incidents. An investigation ...