Although not part of the latest transfers, an offender moved to Sheridan Correctional Center in north-central Illinois from Stateville in November 2023 viciously attacked a prison educator ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections already ... larger — and older — Pontiac Correctional Center and 168 at Sheridan prison to the west. When Stateville reopens, its former employees ...

For Carrie, in Logan women’s prison, it’s gratitude for “rain falling on my forehead and grass between my toes.” A parade of ...

However, the Illinois hazardous materials team that responded to the prison found no evidence of ... Anthony Ehlers is a writer incarcerated at Sheridan Correctional Center. Find out more about ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Jennifer M. Sheridan, the final defendant in the Braking Point Recovery Center Medicaid fraud case, got a 27-month prison sentence Tuesday for her role in the enterprise. Sheridan was ...

A Sheridan man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2024 murder of his girlfriend, judicial officials announced Monday. Following a five-day jury trial, 54-year-old Roy Jones was ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A proposal moving in the Illinois House could help provide naloxone to people leaving jails and prisons if they were incarcerated for drug-related charges or have a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Illinois judges are required to consider a person's youth during sentencing, yet many people are serving life sentences without parole because they were sentenced ...

A man who escaped from the Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution in 2022 was sentenced Monday to an additional two years in prison. Andrew Kristovich, 41, was serving a five-year sentence for ...

It took six months for Maria Garza to finally feel home for good after leaving prison. Garza was released from the Illinois Department of Corrections in June 2021 and spent the next six months bou ...