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

How tiny Oregon, Illinois, has spent decades grappling with one strange congregation, from abuse allegations to a leader who ...

Illinois once offered some form of higher education in every prison. But in 1987 ... do this with real integrity that students who are inside deserve,” Neptune said. Students look at paperwork ...

Efforts to digitize mail into Illinois prisons mirror those in prison systems ... [and] data on where inside a correctional institution or facility contraband has been found.” ...

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

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

Last week, space inside Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention ... WBEZ’s “Motive,” a podcast investigating abuse and corruption in small town prisons in Illinois. Her work has been honored ...

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

Cleodious “J.R.” Schoffner Jr. hadn't killed anyone when he was put away at age 20 as an accomplice to a 1997 murder. He got a life sentence without possibility of parole. That wouldn't happen today.

A pair of Peoria men were sentenced to multiple years in federal prison last week after one of ... pistol and $4,100 in cash being found inside the vehicle. The informant told ATF officials ...