Jul. 10—CHESTER — Hundreds of Menard Correctional Center employees and their supporters staged a rally alongside a busy street in Chester on Monday, July 8, 2024, highlighting what they described as ...

Hundreds of Menard Correctional Center employees and their supporters staged a rally alongside a busy street in Chester on Monday, highlighting what they described as perilous working conditions at ...

CHESTER, Ill. (KFVS) - The Illinois Department of Corrections responded to a picket at the Menard Correctional Center. In a statement released by a DOC spokeswoman on Tuesday, July 9, they said: “The ...

CHESTER, Ill. -- A dozen staff members at a southern Illinois correctional facility were taken to a hospital after experiencing some medical symptoms. A spokesperson with the Illinois Department of ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. CHESTER, Ill. — Hundreds of Menard Correctional Center employees and their supporters staged a rally alongside a busy street in ...

CARTERVILLE, Ill. -- Multiple incidents have been reported in recent weeks at correctional facilities in Illinois, some of which resulted in hospital trips for officers, staff members and others. In ...

CHESTER — Last week, State Rep. Terri Bryant (R-Murphysboro) went to Menard Correctional Center after hearing about people at the prison being taken to the hospital after becoming ill. She posted a ...

Randolph County Coroner Randy Dudenbostel said a 35-year-old inmate was pronounced dead at 10:36 p.m. Tuesday. An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday. “It’s being investigated as a suspicious death,” ...

CHESTER, Ill. (AP) — A southwestern Illinois prison with the state's worst inmate-to-staff ratio of all Illinois maximum-security lockups has had an 'alarming' number of assaults perhaps blamed on the ...