A 29-year-old man was found dead inside the Pontiac Correctional Center Sunday evening, according to the Livingston County Coroner.

PONTIAC, IL — A corrections officer faces up to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of possession with intent to deliver drugs and official misconduct at the Pontiac Correctional Center. It ...

PONTIAC - Pontiac Correctional Center's inmate population was reduced again Monday with the transfer of 50 prisoners to a facility in Lawrence. An Illinois Department of Corrections bus and seven ...

Gov. Pat Quinn's reversal of his predecessor's decision to close Pontiac Correctional Center is good news for a community that sure can use it. But with the state in deep financial trouble, the story ...

An inmate charged in a November 2022 attack on correctional officers at Pontiac Correctional Center has been sentenced to 60 more years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. In a plea agreement, ...

SPRINGFIELD -- The state’s top officials want to put the brakes on a lawsuit that could keep them from closing Pontiac prison. The lawsuit, filed by a several lawmakers and the state’s largest ...

A man convicted of lighting another man on fire while he slept in Pontiac learned his prison sentence Wednesday. Joseph Green claimed what happened to Adrian Trimble was a prank. Trimble suffered ...

SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Pat Quinn signaled the end of Pontiac Correctional Center's role as home to Illinois' death row Wednesday. Although state prison officials are not sure what will happen to the 22 ...

SPRINGFIELD | Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plan to shutter Pontiac Correctional Center will be the focus of a public hearing Aug. 12. The meeting, part of a state-mandated process the governor must follow ...

SPRINGFIELD | The state has paid a consultant more than $411,000 since last year to study what kinds of upgrades need to be made to Illinois prisons. But, officials say they have no plans to use the ...

SPRINGFIELD - More than two months ago, Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he was against closing Pontiac Correctional Center. "That's not something I want to do," the Chicago Democrat said during a rare visit ...

A Pontiac teen recently acquitted of homicide is headed to prison for related convictions of armed robbery and using a firearm to commit the crime. Sentenced Oct. 13 by Oakland County Circuit Judge ...