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.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

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 ...

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 ...

While IDOC said it hasn’t taken sweeping action on this, Candace Chambliss, legal director for the Illinois Prison Project, said they’re facing delays with legal mail getting to clients — what would ...

Anthony Redpath, 42, kept watch on James ­Sheridan after he was freed from prison. Sheridan was later ambushed in an attack that eventually led him to have his leg amputated. Redpath was this ...