Illinois’ prison population continues to shrink, with facilities now having a 26% vacancy rate, leading some of those inside ...

CBS News contributor David Begnaud shows how Willette Benford, who spent 24 years in prison, is working with Illinois first ...

Under the Illinois public records law, AP obtained a list of 406 inmates housed at Stateville as of August 2024 and matched them with the prison to which they’d been transferred, noting its ...

Under the Illinois public records law, AP obtained a list of 406 inmates housed at Stateville as of August 2024 and matched each with the prison to which they’d been transferred, noting its ...

Opinion: Depriving incarcerated people of paper would limit educational opportunities and communication with loved ones.

Illinois Data Shows Inmates With Violent Records From Shuttered Prison Sent to Medium-Security Sites SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois ...