How did the proposed prison make it to 2025 and what are the common questions that continue to be addressed in various ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...

Lawmakers advanced a bill that would appropriate the last round of one-time funding needed to pay for a new men's prison.

A man who is serving a life sentence for the 1989 stabbing death of 68-year-old Hugo Schiazza, faced a parole review on ...