Weeks after pleading guilty to murder and being sentenced to Illinois Department of Corrections, Shanquilla Garvey had a ...

The second-oldest prison in Illinois, built to house 1,800 people, was already over capacity — at nearly 2,000 inmates — by 1878, Peerbolte said. In “Joliet Prisons: Images in Time,” local ...

The family of an 11-year-old Chicago boy murdered last year by his mother’s ex-boyfriend the day after he was released from ...

Erin Hooley / AP Share Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison was closed ... the Crest Hill lockup north of Joliet were not shipped to top ...

An Illinois man may avoid prison for hitting a car and shooting at the fleeing driver in November 2019. Ralph Bevineau, 30, of Joliet, pleaded guilty Wednesday to robbery, a Level 5 felony ...

Professor Jennifer Lackey has offered courses on ethics and mass incarceration at an Illinois maximum-security prison ... mass incarceration — at Stateville Correctional Center, a state prison near ...