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

While most prisoners don't get to enjoy tea parties with a tasty slice of cake, one jail is tearing up the script and ...

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a high-security Florida prison. Indigenous activist Leonard ...

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.

Israel Prison Service security officers on the roof of Ofer Security Prison during unrest, February 16, 2025. (photo credit: ISRAEL PRISON SERVICE) A possible riot is underway at Ofer Security ...

SPRINGFIELD — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for ...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is proposing a roughly $500 million overhaul of the state's prison system. It would close two of ...

Yet, nearly four in five of the offenders formerly housed at the suburban Chicago lockup were not shipped to top-level maximum-security prisons, where the toughest criminals, troublemakers and ...

Yet, nearly four in five of the offenders formerly housed at the suburban Chicago lockup were not shipped to top-level maximum-security prisons, where the toughest criminals, troublemakers and ...