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.

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

We thought the best way to get into the conversation was to bypass all of the stereotypical conversations that people imagine having with people serving long-term sentences and really dive into ...

Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) announced plans Friday morning to tear down and rebuild Stateville ... The prison is located just north of Joliet in Crest Hill.

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 ...

T he family of a man who died while in custody at Stateville Correctional Center during an early summer heat wave sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, a prison health care provider and ...

Professor Jennifer Lackey has offered courses on ethics and mass incarceration at an Illinois maximum-security ... mass incarceration — at Stateville Correctional Center, a state prison near Joliet, ...