A Chicago man who served nearly 30 years in prison was released on Thursday after having his conviction in a 1996 murder ...

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

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Although not part of the latest transfers, an offender moved to Sheridan Correctional Center in north-central Illinois from ...

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...

After identifying the brothers as suspects, law enforcement officials used the images to locate Joseph Bierbrodt in late ...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić received on an official visit Rod Blagojevich, the American politician who was once the governor of the federal state of Illinois, but who is best known for his ...

A Bureau of Prisons policy that, earlier this week, called on transgender women in federal prisons to hand over any female-identifying clothing and other commissary items, like women's razors and hair ...