The role of Black prisoners helped lead to the practice of using genetic testing to understand how patients will react to ...

The Old Joliet Prison was open for nearly 150 years and has been closed for more than 20. A section of the prison that has ...

The Joliet Correctional Center was built in 1858 to replace the state’s first prison, in Alton. Inmates from Alton built Joliet from limestone they quarried just a few hundred feet away.

when Illinois’ first state prison, in downstate Alton, became too overcrowded. Steven Wright of the Joliet Area Historical Museum said the Joliet prison took years to complete. “They did ...

The Joliet prison closed in 2002 after 144 years. Film officials say having the vacant prison close to Chicago could be a good draw for other movies, since many other empty jails are either too ...

Once it was among the largest prisons in the country, but Joliet's permanent population has shrunk to about 200, and for decades it has served mainly as the state prison system's intake valve.

But thanks to more than $10 million in state and federal grants, tour groups can now tour the administration building and see ...

This summer, guided tours will be available for the area that once housed wardens, clerks, and the officials who ran day-to-day operations. Hard hats will be required.