These are the cell blocks of Illinois’ model penitentiary. Here, last week, occurred the first major prison riot of the year. Warden of Stateville is Henry C. Hill, who also is in charge of the ...

Illinois prosecutors said. More than seventeen years after the alleged abuse ended, a convicted child sex offender has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the Kendall County State’s Attorney ...

For Carrie, in Logan women’s prison, it’s gratitude for “rain falling on my forehead and grass between my toes.” But when we asked hundreds of people in Illinois prisons and jails how they ...

A Peoria man was sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison Wednesday after he attempted ... in the 9000 block of North Galena Road along Illinois Route 29. A man dressed in a black fedora ...

Frank Drew spent 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, according to a federal lawsuit. Screengrab from Frank Drew's Facebook page. An Illinois man says police framed him in a fatal ...

Willette Benford, 60, spent almost half her life in prison. Now, she's a senior advisor to the first lady of Illinois, M.K. Pritzker. Together, they're focused on addressing barriers women face in ...

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois, prosecutors said at Tuesday's sentencing hearing that Turner had been previously sentenced to six years in prison for ...

An undated photo from the Illinois State Training School for Girls ... “but rather as a cruel prison.” According to the article, “this cemetery is all that remains of a school for ‘wayward ...