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

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.

Efforts to digitize mail into Illinois prisons mirror those in prison systems across the country. Credit: Rhodi Lopez / Unsplash Illinois lawmakers and prison guards are ramping up efforts to ban ...