Illinois has become the first state in the nation to ensure that public schools, hospitals and other state-run institutions ...

Many of those workers admitted they paid kickbacks to others to fill out phony applications to get loans through the Paycheck ...

The last men incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center have been transferred out of the aging facility as of Monday, ...

At a vigil across the road from Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac, Wis., advocates sought to increase ...

More than 100 people listened as two teams of attorneys laid out their cases regarding two decade-old convictions. A ...

An Arizona man who was arrested in Kansas for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor victim as he transported her across ...

A multi-year investigation has led to the arrest of a Wonder Lake man who is facing charges of sex trafficking a 15-year-old ...

The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe’s leader 175 years ago but ...

Hawaiʻi has agreed to open its prisons and jails for inspection by two national experts who will assess the state’s troubled ...

Four inmates face mob action charges after attacking another prisoner in Madison County Jail; a fifth inmate's charges were ...

Now in its second decade, the Cook County Jail chess program is thriving, competing internationally and above all — it’s ...

On Monday night, Democratic U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told supporters that electing Crawford was important ...