Franklin County Jail is set to participate in an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement program that aims to prevent undocumented immigrants with criminal records from being released into the ...

In Illinois Answers’ investigation into ... with a “stun cuff” – a sort of shock collar for humans. At Franklin County Jail, staff restrained two mentally ill men for 68 and 27 hours.

Hernandez’s attorney had asked for a sentence of 120 days “shock time” in Franklin County’s jail, with credit for the time she spent wearing an electronic monitor, followed by probation.

Of all Illinois jails, Madison County has the most incidents in which they restrained incarcerated people for than 10 hours – the upper limit set by the chair manufacturer.