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 ...

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.

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...