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.

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 ...

Vice President JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" was among the books involved in an alleged scheme to smuggle drugs into Ohio prisons, court records say.

A Maumee man is accused of smuggling drugs into an Ohio prison by spraying Vice President JD Vance’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” ...

GRAFTON, Ohio (WJW) – Several staff members and inmates at the Lorain Correctional Institution were hospitalized over the weekend after investigators say they were possibly exposed to an “unknown ...

Several staff members and incarcerated individuals were potentially exposed to an unknown airborne substance Saturday night, ...

The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki exposes shocking conditions in Alabama's prisons in the Sundance premiere documentary 'The ...

TABOR CITY, N.C. (WECT) - The Tabor Correctional Institution has been recommended for accreditation by auditors with the American Correctional Association (ACA). ACA found Tabor Correctional met all ...

Personnel from Dixon Correctional Institute delivered 17 bicycles to Jackson Elementary School as Christmas gifts from three sponsoring inmate organizations. The Jaycees, Toastmasters and DCI ...