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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


The Cook County Jail’s voting rate for the 2022 primaries was 25%, higher than that of the city of Chicago.

Innocent until proven guilty: Cook County Jail expands pretrial voter access

October 30, 2024

The 2024 presidential election has been charged with rhetoric around the criminal justice system, especially as Kamala Harris’ campaign has attempted to leverage a “prosecutor versus felon” narrative...

Faculty chair of Hobart House Jeanine Casler introduced the speakers at the start of the event.

‘Once you’re in WIND, you’re in there for life:’ WIND hosts poetry reading, Q&A with formerly incarcerated women

April 28, 2024

“Just love me” is the central idea throughout Women Initiating New Directions Lived Experience Leader Mariah Greer’s poem. The poem was featured in “Women Writing Their Futures,” an anthology...

The Cook County Criminal Courts Administration Building, next to the George N. Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago. Lathem has pleaded not guilty to charges that he and former Oxford University employee Andrew Warren stabbed Trenton Cornell-Duranleau to death.

Former Feinberg Prof. denied release from jail to help with COVID-19 research

April 14, 2020

Former Feinberg School of Medicine professor Wyndham Lathem, who faces charges for allegedly killing his boyfriend in a premeditated murder-sex fantasy, was denied a request to be released from prison...

Chicago resident hit in head with brick in attempted murder

October 1, 2019

A Chicago man was arrested and charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery in connection with an incident where a man on Howard Street was hit in the head with a brick numerous times, according...

Women in Cook County jail work with members of Piven Theatre Project. The weekly workshops allow the women to express themselves in an environment where such chances are rare.

Piven Theater continues dialogue of mass incarceration through new play detailing experiences of incarcerated women

April 11, 2019

Gillian Hemme is not one to “skip her 9 a.m.’s” — especially on Tuesdays. She wakes up as early as 5 a.m. to ensure she arrives on time at 8. Once she parks, she leaves her cell phone and...

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