An inmate set a shower fire on the jail’s unrenovated seventh floor, triggering a major emergency response. Nine people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation, including five inmates and four ...

An inmate at Cook County Jail died last week after a fire inside his cell, sheriff's officials said. Around 7:15 p.m. Thursday, correctional officers in the residential treatment unit of the jail ...

Prisoners heard an inmate screaming "I'm on fire" in the 33 minutes it took for her to be let out of her cell during a blaze. Clare Dupree, 48, from Cardiff, died in December 2022 — two days after ...