Cook County Jail inmate tracker

A Django app that tracks the population of Cook County Jail over time and summarizes trends.

Using the API

See the API guide for accessing the production API service and querying the data.

Running it locally

The scraper is invoked with a management command:

./manage.py scrape_inmates

scrape_inmates also supports a --limit / -l flag which limits the number of records created and --search / -s flag which overrides the default A-Z search strategy.

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3. See LICENSE.md.

Contributors

See AUTHORS.md for contributors.