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

While no sentence can undo the harm caused, today’s outcome ensures that the defendant will be held accountable for his ...

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 ...

Family members of Syrians who disappeared in the country’s 14-year civil war gathered in the city of Daraa on Sunday to urge ...

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.

After extinguishing the fire, fire crews found the woman inside the home. She was pronounced dead at the scene. South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol leaves prison and bows to ...

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 ...