CHICAGO — Dozens of men have begun to be transferred out of Stateville Correctional Center just north of Joliet as debates continue over the condition of the century-old prison and Gov. JB ...

When Illinois' century-old maximum-security Stateville prison closed last summer, four in five inmates were transferred to medium-security facilities despite violent backgrounds, data shows.

Roughly two weeks later, News 3 reported information from the Illinois Department of Corrections, where they detailed a four-day stretch of searches and incidents at Menard Correctional Center ...