Annie Sweeney – Page 34

Monica Cosby: ‘When all of your choices are bad, then you really don’t have any. … Freedom is having good choices.’

May 23, 2019 at 1:04 a.m.

Monica Cosby remembers all their first names: Guin and Sandra and Roberta and Laura. Nia, too. And Angie. They are the women Cosby, 49, left behind in the Illinois Department...

Colette Payne: ‘When a woman is in crisis, you do not put them in a cage.’

May 23, 2019 at 1:04 a.m.

Colette Payne was just 14 the first time she was locked up. Raised by hardworking parents who put her and her siblings in Catholic school, Payne fell victim to the...

Christina Escalera, 31, poses for a photograph at her workplace, Alliance of Local Service Organizations (ALSO), in the 2400 block of West North Avenue in Chicago on July 6, 2018.

‘Prison is not where women need to be’: All-female task force wants to cut Illinois’ female prison population in half

May 23, 2019 at 1:03 a.m.

The number of women locked up in Illinois prisons would be cut by as much as half under an ambitious proposal by reform advocates who argue that the corrections system...

Christina Escalera: ‘I am going to do whatever I have to do.’

May 23, 2019 at 1:04 a.m.

In retrospect, Christina Escalera figures she could have tried harder to find a legitimate job. But back then she was a 19-year-old single mother with two young boys and no...

Celia Colon: ‘I saw a lot of hurt and bloodshed. Things that are never gonna be erased. It does irreversible damage.’

May 23, 2019 at 1:04 a.m.

Celia Colon recalls how as a young girl she was locked up inside a closet for hours when there was no responsible adult around to care for her. By the...

Police officers face off with demonstrators at the scene of the fatal police shooting of 37-year-old Harith Augustus on July 14, 2018, in the South Shore neighborhood.

City officials balk at releasing more videos on deadly police shooting

May 23, 2019 at 1:04 a.m.

A day after Chicago police released a 20-second video of a fatal police shooting that sparked unrest and outrage, city officials said there are no immediate plans to release additional...

Activista comunitario William Calloway, centro, y partidarios en un comunicado de prensa en el lobby del Leighton Criminal Courthouse tras atender una audiencia para el policía Jason Van Dyke el 25 de mayo, 2017, en Little Village.

Activistas se preparan para el veredicto en el caso del asesinato de Laquan McDonald

December 12, 2018 at 8:55 p.m.

Cientos de personas se reunieron en el centro histórico South Shore Cultural Center, entre ellos profesores, organizadores, líderes religiosos y madres de jóvenes tiroteados por la Policía. Fueron convocados por...

Protesters march near 63rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue on Nov. 28, 2015, to express outrage over the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke. Dash-cam video showing the October 2014 shooting was released during Thanksgiving week.

Activist plans community meetings to prepare for verdict in Laquan McDonald’s killing by police

May 23, 2019 at 1:01 a.m.

The hundred or so people were gathered in the historic South Shore Cultural Center — educators, organizers, religious leaders and the mothers of men and boys shot by police. They...

Missing Milwaukee girl found in Chicago after disturbing video surfaces on Facebook

May 31, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

More than a month after she was reported missing by her mother in Milwaukee, a 16-year-old girl has been found in Chicago after disturbing images of her being assaulted by...

Allena Bradley, of Black Youth Project 100, stands with others during a protest announcing a federal class-action lawsuit filed against the city by several community groups, alleging that officers often falsely label people as gang members.

Lawsuit alleges Chicago Police Department’s massive gang database discriminatory, inaccurate

May 23, 2019 at 12:57 a.m.

Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the city of Chicago flag, Donta Lucas described some considerable troubles he has faced in his 34 years — growing up in the tough Cabrini-Green...

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