For years, Lillian Bell says she hardly ever missed a Sunday visiting her son Michael in prison at Stateville Correctional Center. The 70-year-old mother of three was grateful when Michael was ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered Illinois prison officials to move most of the people incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center to other prisons around the state by Sept. 30 after civil rights ...

A recently filed plaintiff's motion is seeking to trigger an immediate shutdown of Stateville Correctional Center in Chicago's southwest suburbs, advocating for inmates to be moved to other facilities ...

Family members of a man incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center who died during a heat wave there are suing the state’s prison system in federal court. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed ...

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Jerrell Matthews has known for months that he’d be transferring from Stateville Correctional Center, a men’s maximum-security prison outside of Joliet where he’s lived for the last six years. But he ...

A downstate prison for women would be moved onto the same site as Stateville Correctional Center as part of a plan to rebuild both facilities, according to a proposal the Illinois Department of ...

CREST HILL, Ill. (CBS) -- The State of Illinois has started moving inmates out of Stateville Correctional Center—which is set to close over concerns about poor living conditions there. But plans to ...

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Students graduate from the Northwestern Prison Education Program at Stateville Correctional Center, becoming the first incarcerated students to earn bachelor’s degrees from a top 10 university on Nov.