Cook County Jail is home to one of America's largest COVID-19 outbreaks, afflicting guards, nurses and detainees. We speak with Shannon Heffernan, a reporter on WBEZ's criminal justice desk who's been documenting the crisis.

In  this week's Legal Issues in the News, commentator Sean Anderson looks at the online classified service Backpage.com and the Cook County sheriff who tried a novel way to combat alleged illegal activities on the site.