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

Everynight, Everynight (1994) still packs a punch, and the opening and closing sections of Chopper (2000), set in prison, are the most compelling parts of the movie. Inside follows juvenile ...

Willette Benford, 60, spent almost half her life in prison. Now, she's a senior advisor to the first lady of Illinois, M.K. Pritzker. Together, they're focused on addressing barriers women face in ...

Why would they do this? Ostensibly, it’s necessary in the name of public safety: keeping Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) employees and residents safe. A common refrain is that paper is ...

From survival tactics to prison relationships, here’s what everyone had to say about life on the inside: 1."I was incarcerated from 2020-2023 at a medical facility (though I wasn't there for ...

That’s why the latest Australian prison drama, Inside, starring Academy Award nominee Guy Pearce, is so refreshing. Inside is considered, not salacious. That’s because first-time feature ...

Twenty-eight-year-old Marcus Fair of Dolton, Illinois was sentenced, Wednesday, March 12, to more than 4 years in federal prison for the possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. The United ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — 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 ...

Over 250 gang members have been brought to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) after the Trump administration defied a federal judge's ruling. This move is part of a larger ...

WAUPUN, Wisconsin (WISN) — Another inmate has died inside Wisconsin’s troubled maximum security prison in Waupun, the seventh in two years. Wisconsin Department of Corrections officials ...

While he was supposed to die at the hands of the state, California abolished the death penalty in 1972 — which resulted in his sentence being commuted to life in prison. Manson died at 83 in ...

An EncroChat drug dealer "Fruitykecks" videoed himself inside Strangeways prison as he ran a £1m drug enterprise. In the clip, Nico Logan can be seen brazenly showing the cell number as he walks ...