For decades, the state has offered limited avenues for rehabilitation and shorter sentences. It’s time lawmakers fix it.

Advocates led by the Illinois Justice Project argue the findings strengthen the case for a statewide reentry housing ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- New questions were being raised Tuesday night about how many inmates have actually been released from state prisons because of the COVID-19 crisis, and whether there are dangerous ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois' most-hardened criminals are no match for COVID-19 as the virus is infecting inmates in several state prisons at a startling pace. At one state prison on Monday more than 40% ...

A first-of-its-kind statewide survey shows many reentering society may face difficulty finding housing. Advocates say the ...

The medical care of the nearly 30,000 people locked up in Illinois state prisons is in limbo, after the Illinois Department of Corrections announced negotiations with its chosen health care provider ...

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For every person enrolled in higher education at Illinois prisons, someone else is waiting for their turn, according to new state data that reveals a system where access to college depends largely on ...

When Gov. JB Pritzker and First Lady MK Pritzker visited the pope in Rome on Nov. 19, they gave the pontiff a gift: a ...

The nearly 30,000 people incarcerated in Illinois prisons may begin having their mail scanned and subjected to other security measures following reports that those incarcerated and staff members who ...

A women’s prison in Illinois currently houses a man who murdered his mother in 1995 and hid her body in a bathtub, documents show. Kmuel King Illinois Prison Records by Hudson Crozier Logan Correction ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan began serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence Monday after being found guilty by a federal jury on charges of conspiracy, wire ...