According to research at Southern Illinois University, correctional officers have a suicide rate twice as high as all other ...

WBEZ Chicago and public radio stations throughout Illinois are teaming up once again to produce a special radio broadcast for ...

Andrew Kristovich, 41, was serving a five year sentence for drug trafficking in Washington when he escaped from the Sheridan ...

After some heated debate, the North Dakota House has approved a measure that would allow infants in the soon-to-be ...

Inside-Out is a program taught in hundreds of jails and prisons across the country. DePaul’s class this quarter is about ...

Plus: A proposal to ease housing banishment laws and the Army Corps drops plans for a toxic sludge dump in Calumet Harbor.

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

Raysean M. Colvin, 20; Damion D. Weeden Sr., 44; and John A. Hammond Jr., 45, all of Alton, plus Vernon G. McIntosh, 39, of ...

Rock Island County prosecutors have filed official charges against a Moline man for his role in a shooting incident that ...