CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been charged with murder in a deadly New Year’s Day stabbing in Little Village. Freddy Diaz, 44, has been charged with one felony count of first-degree murder, according to ...

We thought the best way to get into the conversation was to bypass all of the stereotypical conversations that people imagine having with people serving long-term sentences and really dive into ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said he would block pardoned Capitol insurrectionists from serving in local government positions, citing a state law ... served years in prison, and they’ve served ...

Six members of the Joliet J-Hawk Speech and Drama team are headed to state competition this weekend in Huntley. The team comprises, Aubrey Blair, Keith Frank, Adin Matthes, Nancy Nelson ...

Department of Corrections Executive Director Steven Harpe advocated for an agency that has endured withering criticism recently. Violence in state prisons was spotlighted in October during a ...

“If you are (Illinois Department of Corrections) staff who wants ICE to know of an illegal immigrant in IDOC call or message me,” state Sen. Terri Bryant of Murphysboro wrote in posts on X ...

The Brown County State's Attorney's office has filed a first-degree murder charge against Joshua Miner, 36, alleging he strangled his Western Illinois Correctional Center cellmate, 44-year-old ...

“If you are (Illinois Department of Corrections) staff who wants ICE to know of an illegal immigrant in IDOC call or message me,” state Sen. Terri Bryant of Murphysboro wrote in posts on X ...