FILE - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks before President Joe Biden at an event with United Auto Workers at the Community Building Complex of Boone County, Nov. 9, 2023, in Belvidere, Ill. (AP ...

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 serving time ...

When mail is digitized, it becomes sterile – no longer a precious handwritten card that smells like my gramma’s perfume.

A Sun-Times investigation found the state’s new prison health care provider comes with a disturbing track record.

Incarcerated trainers in the Helping PAWS program at Logan Correctional Center raise puppies that will later work as mobility ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Illinois prison officials have until the end of September to move most of the people held at Stateville Correctional Center in southwest suburban Crest Hill to other prisons around the ...

(Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Department of Corrections has enacted an emergency rule change to prevent contraband from entering its prisons through letters and books sent to people in prison ...

Regina Russell’s son, Tamon Russell, has been incarcerated in Illinois for over 20 years. Since he first went to prison, handwritten letters have been one of the few consistent ways the family has ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois' most-hardened criminals are no match for COVID-19 as the virus is infecting inmates in several state prisons at a startling pace. At one state prison on Monday more than 40% ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois must move most of the inmates at its 100-year-old prison within less than two months because of decrepit conditions, a federal judge ruled. The Illinois Department of ...

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