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

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during ...

Opinion: Depriving incarcerated people of paper would limit educational opportunities and communication with loved ones.

A new women’s prison would create about 100 full-time jobs, he said, including nursing and maintenance positions.

A 2024 law gives people in prison time off their sentences for work and education. But an internal report shows the prison ...

Heather Mack, the former Oak Park resident sentenced to 26 years in prison for her part in the brutal murder of her mother, ...

Former correctional officer Brittany Hall, 31, has been indicted for sexually abusing 4 female inmates at Chicago's MCC jail, ...

Brittany Hall was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with sexually abusing female inmates at Chicago’s MCC — including, The Post is told, Heather Mack.

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

Rice became a methamphetamine user at a young age in Galesburg, Illinois, and had many scrapes with the law, including a ...

DUBLIN, Calif. (KGO) -- On Saturday, hundreds rallied in Dublin near a former women's federal prison with a notorious past to protest a proposal by the Trump administration to convert it into an ...

A female correctional officer was accused of sexually abusing four women who were inmates at a downtown correctional center ...