The Mud Theatre Project started out as a group of incarcerated men who wanted to write and perform plays. Several years later, that dream became a reality on one of Chicago's biggest stages.

The prison sits less than 2 miles from Lynch Road, which is home to large portion of the city’s significant economic ...

"There's so many other steps that have to come after this for some action to really ... make us believe that it's true," a former prisoner said.

Research shows higher education is effective at preventing people from re-offending. Legislation could give more people inside access to college classes.

Under the Illinois public records law, AP obtained a list of 406 inmates housed at Stateville as of August 2024 and matched each with the prison to which they’d been transferred, noting its security ...

QUINCY — As people waited outside Courtroom 2B in the Adams County Courthouse for the trial of Bradley Yohn to resume one ...

More than 130 people allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois. That's according to the latest lawsuits filed this week by ...

In so doing, (the Supreme Court) risks the continuation of a split in authority over the proper remedy for the admission of ...

These thoughtful touches gained the admiration of Maggie Burke, a former warden at the Illinois Department of Corrections who worked in that state’s prison nursery and who helped advocate for the ...

Inmates at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham were given the opportunity in the fall of 2024 to learn alongside seniors at Horace Mann School, an elite private school in New York City.

Illinois State Police are investigating a shooting in Menard County over the weekend. It happened Saturday east of Petersburg on Tice Road.

AFSCME Council 31, the union that represents most correctional workers in Illinois, maintains that mail is the ... program for non-legal or state official mail in 2023 at Menard Correctional Center ...