In March 2024, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a $900 million plan to rebuild the Logan and Stateville correctional centers.

Serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s crimes are being documented in the new Peacock true crime series Devil in Disguise: John ...

The Village of Chatham is set to flush water mains in the Foxx Creek area today at 10:45 a.m. Residents may experience temporary water quality issues, including ...

The 8-episode Peacock show, now streaming, takes a different approach than most true crime series based on serial killers.

As Illinois prison workers testify about the benefits of electronic mail scanning, Illinois Department of Corrections ...

An Illinois pilot program will give prisoners 775 free call minutes monthly to strengthen family ties and rehabilitation.

After detainees described squalid conditions at the detention site, a judge ordered the government to provide showers, water, ...

PERRY COUNTY, Ill. (WSIL) -- Two truck-tractor semi-trailers were involved in a crash on IL-154 near the Pinckneyville Correctional Facility early Tuesday morning. Illinois State Police Troop 10 ...

A lawsuit was filed last week, claiming inhumane conditions​ at the facility in Broadview and how the people inside don't ...

WHEELER COUNTY, Ga. — An inmate at the Wheeler County Correctional Facility died after an encounter with correctional officers early Sunday morning. A release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation ...

Illinois advocates sued federal authorities Friday over alleged “inhumane” conditions at a Chicago-area federal immigration facility. Attorneys with the ACLU of Illinois and the MacArthur Justice ...

Representatives from Britain and other British Overseas Territories recently assessed Bermuda’s correctional facilities, as part of a British government Ministry of Justice initiative. A government ...