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

Inflamed with murderous jealousy, an Illinois man drove more than 300 miles to a Saginaw County home to kill his ...

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

State lawmakers could pass a plan this spring to create a task force on ADA requirements for correctional facilities.

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

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter An Arizona man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for kidnapping and sexually ...

CBS News contributor David Begnaud shows how Willette Benford, who spent 24 years in prison, is working with Illinois first lady M.K. Pritzker to help those exiting the criminal justice system.

Illinois judges are required to consider a person's youth during sentencing, yet many people are serving life sentences without parole because they were sentenced before state law changed in 2012.

An aide at state facility for those convicted of sexual offenses has been arrested on charges of possessing and disseminating ...

A Chicago, Ill., man was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for distributing drugs near a Dubuque college.

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