When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

The second-oldest prison in Illinois, built to house 1,800 people, was already over capacity — at nearly 2,000 inmates — by 1878, Peerbolte said. In “Joliet Prisons: Images in Time,” local ...

Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections ... facility to be built on its grounds. The prison is located just north of Joliet in Crest Hill. The state is also planning to replace ...

the ex-Illinois Department of Corrections prison inmate now on parole finds himself in the Will County Jail after Joliet police say he followed a random woman to her west side home early Friday ...

In a Joliet house on Hickory Street back in ... Experts told the I-Team that the Western Illinois Correctional Center was notorious for safety concerns. "Western has long been a facility that ...

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