When Illinois shuttered the century-old maximum security facility last year, nearly four of every five inmates went to less-secure sites.

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 ...

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

A Joliet man who has tattoos that say "Killinois" and "Angel Of Death" has been serving life in prison for the 2020 murder of a 25-year-old man.

They were plucked from pharmacies, apartment buildings and other locations, and thrown in prison for months. Many then endured severe beatings, food deprivation and other forms of torture.

CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has directed prosecutors to seek prison sentences in every felony case involving machine gun-type weapons, according to a new ...

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes of gold bars, cash and a car and what his lawyers said made him a ...

(WICS) — The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC ... who will go on to serve at Joliet Treatment Center, Joliet Inpatient Treatment Center, Kewanee Life Skills Re-Entry Center, Pontiac, and ...

He said he spent three of those years in the recently closed Stateville Correctional Center, just an hour-long drive from Evanston. About 15 years later, after stints in professional boxing and ...