CHICAGO (WGN) — A woman is suing several Illinois agencies for letting her former boyfriend out of prison one day before he allegedly attacked her and her son. Following the release of 37-year ...

South Carolina authorities arrested two former corrections staff members and one former inmate Friday on charges ranging from sexual misconduct to conspiracy. Antoinette Briana Crawley, 33, a ...

A Chicago man was sentenced to 57 years in prison on Tuesday in a 2022 shooting in Aurora, Illinois. Byron Frazier, 32, was convicted last year of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery ...

The federal government will shut down if a funding bill is not passed by the end of Friday. Illinois has over 40,000 federal civilian employees who could be working with pay, working without pay ...

As Illinois’ prison population sits at a near 30-year low, the Illinois Department of Corrections has put out a bid to build two new 1,500-single-celled facilities. That bid is part of a $900 million ...

The last games of the Big Ten's 2024-25 regular season went in the books Sunday, locking in the final conference standings, settling the seedings for the Big Ten Tournament and issuing each team's ...

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been released from prison a day after a court cancelled his arrest warrant. Footage aired on local TV channels showed Yoon leaving prison on ...

Prisons across the United States run on incarcerated labor. People behind bars cook food, sew clothes, clean facilities, manufacture goods, and even work in dangerous industries like agriculture and ...

Child killer Robert Serritella died in state prison while serving a 45-year sentence for the murder of Skokie teenager David Chereck, NBC 5 Investigates has learned. After strangling 15-year-old ...

Officers from across the state came together for a rally in Albany as strikes at New York prisons entered a third week. Officers from across the state came together for a rally in Albany as ...

As a teenager, he often drove an hour-and-a-half to the Astor Theatre in St Kilda to catch a double feature. "I'd go like four times a week, and I'd see two doubles on Sundays, driving home at ...