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

Former correctional officer Brittany Hall, 31, has been indicted for sexually abusing 4 female inmates at Chicago's MCC jail, ...

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

A 2024 law gives people in prison time off their sentences for work and education. But an internal report shows the prison ...

In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a federal court to consider whether an Oklahoma woman named Brenda Andrew should ...

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during ...

VANDALIA — Missouri’s first prison nursery program welcomed its first baby. Dawson, born earlier this week at University ...

The organization cited several incidents at facilities in Illinois, California ... Justice Department released in 2023. A federal prison for female inmates in Dublin, California, was closed ...

States should stop requiring health providers to file reports on every abortion because the information poses a risk to both ...

Good morning, Chicago. DuPage County and county Sheriff James Mendrick have reached an $11 million settlement with the estate of Reneyda Aguilar-Hurtado, a 50-year-old mother who died in June 2023 ...

I was trying to get into her life,” Khalid Mehdiyev said of targeting activist Masih Alinejad. “I was trying to get the easy ...