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

CHICAGO (CBS) --A raging fire at the shuttered Joliet Correctional Center on Monday has renewed questions about what should be done with the site. The fire started in an industrial building at the ...

Joliet Correctional Center was in operation from 1858 to 2002. It was featured in the “The Blues Brothers” and Fox’s “Prison Break.” Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox have a new TV home.

“Joliet Jake” Blues walks out the front gate of Joliet Correctional Center, a looming, limestone fortress built in 1858. Now, for the first time since the facility closed in 2002, tourists can ...

State officials have shot down Cook County Sheriff's idea of using the old Joliet Correctional Center, or its annex across the street, to hold people who might be arrested during the upcoming NATO ...

AP Share Prisoners at an Illinois Department of Corrections facility in Joliet suffer through nightmare ... in 2002 next to the Stateville Correctional Center. “Entering prison is always going ...

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 ...

guards and wardens to show the history of the Joliet Correctional Center on Collins Street, the adjacent Women's Prison and Stateville. The exhibit shares its title with an 1856 novel by Charles ...

which has been home to the now-closed Joliet Correctional Center for more than 150 years. He also said the detention facility would bring hundreds of jobs to a city hit hard by the recession.