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 ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent ...

Now, almost three decades after his arrest, a judge will decide whether to release Robert Johnson later this month.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are ...