Less than 10 months after reporting to federal prison, Edward Burke was released to begin spending the rest of his sentence in the Chicago area Tuesday, according to federal officials. The U.S. Bureau ...

Disgraced former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke walked out of Thomson federal penitentiary in northwest Illinois on Tuesday, officials said.

Sherwood Edwards, who moved past an early life of crime and imprisonment to get his doctorate and become an accomplished ...

Former Chicago alderman Ed Burke is expected to be released from prison Tuesday after being convicted of corruption for using his position to benefit his law firm.

It took one man 18 years and a hunger strike to get his GED while locked up in Illinois prisons Juan Hernandez was a teenager when he was sentenced to prison. He was 32 when he finally completed ...