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 latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

Will County's judges continue to utilize the Illinois SAFE-T-Act to keep Joliet citizens accused of violent crimes locked up ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Now, almost three decades after his arrest, a judge will decide whether to release Robert Johnson later this month.

He's among 800 people who have filed complaints since May against juvenile detention centers in Illinois alleging they were ...

A Joliet man is behind bars after allegedly opening ... dog in the southwest suburbs last year was sentenced to one year in prison. A federal jury has convicted a Bolingbrook man who acted as ...

Father Carlos Martins of Detroit, host of The Exorcist Files podcast and author of a book of the same title, was charged this month with misdemeanor battery in Illinois over the alleged Nov. 25 ...

They were plucked from pharmacies, apartment buildings and other locations, and thrown in prison for months. Many then endured severe beatings, food deprivation and other forms of torture.

CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has directed prosecutors to seek prison sentences in every felony case involving machine gun-type weapons, according to a new ...

(The Center Square) – The jury has completed its first full day of deliberations at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain. Deliberations ...

Dee Farmer knows all too well what could happen when a trans woman is placed in a prison for men: abuse and assault from ... In 2022, a federal judge in Illinois ordered the Bureau of Prisons to ...