Officials say Stateville’s budget has stayed relatively level because of an increase in the population of a reception center ...

Have you ever seen a place with less color? The Joliet Correctional Center, which opens for public tours on Tuesday, is surrounded by a 25-foot-tall limestone wall that looks like it was dipped ...

Things began settling down within a couple of hours as reinforcements from the Illinois State Police and tactical teams from the Pontiac Correctional Center and Joliet Correctional Center ...

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) -- It was featured in movie classics such as "The Sting" and "The Blues Brothers," and now another major motion picture will film scenes at the former Joliet Correctional Center.

Bernard McKinley spent 23 years an inmate at Stateville Correctional Center outside Joliet. He saw the deteriorating stairways, huge vertical cracks in the walls and ceiling enforcements rusted by ...

After nearly a century in operation, this month marks the end for one of Illinois’ most notorious prisons: Stateville Correctional Center, just outside of Joliet. At the same time, its proximity ...

The plan is part of a nearly $1 billion project that includes tearing down Logan Correctional Center, a women’s prison ... site in Crest Hill, near Joliet. State officials previously said ...