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

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

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

Incarcerated men say Illinois prison guards forced them into painful stress positions and forced them to rub their genitals ...

A former correctional officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago, Illinois has appeared in federal court to face a slew of charges alleging she sexually abused four women in ...

Brittany Hall, a former correctional officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, has been indicted on five counts of sexual abuse charges after allegedly abusing four inmates while ...

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 ...

An Illinois trucker linked to the deaths of at least half a dozen women received a 65-year prison sentence for the killing of ...

Bruce Mendenhall on Monday was ordered to serve 65 years in prison after being found guilty of murder last month in the ...