Mother of 11-year-old boy fatally stabbed while protecting her in Edgewater home files lawsuit
Laterria Smith claims the state ignored the danger posed by her ex-boyfriend, who is charged in the 2024 attack, and released ...
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Illinois Pitches Two New Prisons as a Way to Modernize and Address Aging Facilities. Some Advocates Aren’t Sold
Illinois’ prison population continues to shrink, with facilities now having a 26% vacancy rate, leading some of those inside ...
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Stateville inmates with violent records wound up in medium-security prisons
Erin Hooley / AP Share Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison was closed last summer, 278 were convicted of murder, and 100 more are serving ...
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Data shows inmates with violent records from Stateville Correctional Center sent to medium-security sites
Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent ...
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Inmates with violent records from shuttered prison are being sent to medium-security sites
Opened in 1925, Stateville was targeted for closure in the spring when Gov. JB Pritzker set aside $900 million to replace it and Logan Correctional Center, the deteriorating women’s facility in ...
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Illinois data shows inmates with violent records from shuttered prison sent to medium-security sites
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time ...