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

Inmates at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham were given the opportunity in the fall of 2024 to learn alongside seniors at Horace Mann School, an elite private school in New York City.

Pardue was sentenced to one year and six months to two years and seven months in prison, the district attorney’s office said. According to court documents, Pardue entered her guilty plea in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes of ...

Prison escapee David Johnson remains on the run from police after escaping on Wednesday. Reporter at the Illawarra Mercury, covering the local community. Got a tip? Send it through to me at joel ...

Illinois lawmakers kicked off their spring legislative session ... of crimes to serve their sentences in “community-based settings” rather than in prison. Mayfield said her proposal would “create a ...

Now, more than a year later, he has been ordered to spend decades in prison, according to R. Andrew Murray, district attorney for Henderson County. Ivey was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to ...

I spent more hours than I can count meeting with teenage clients in the dingy visiting room at the Oak Hill Youth Center, Washington’s youth prison. Infested with rats, roaches and even snakes ...

The Illinois State Police released video of the fatal shooting of George Walker during a Romeoville bank hostage standoff. The 65-year-old suspect released hostages before being shot by a SWAT ...

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 ...

A southern Illinois Republican lawmaker is urging Illinois prison employees to secretly send her information on undocumented immigrants who are behind bars so she can pass the information on to ...