Advocates led by the Illinois Justice Project argue the findings strengthen the case for a statewide reentry housing ...

A women’s prison in Illinois currently houses a man who murdered his mother in 1995 and hid her body in a bathtub, documents show. Kmuel King Illinois Prison Records by Hudson Crozier Logan Correction ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to federal women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s facilities in the ...

On a hot August afternoon, a group of prison reform advocates and families of incarcerated people flocked to a Chicago gallery space for an unusual task: quilting. But this isn’t your average ...