The Volunteer Millers of de Immigrant Windmill will host a program by Kelly Klobucher about the old Joliet, Illinois, prison ...

In a bid to curb the influx of illicit substances entering prisons through mail, State Senator Rachel Ventura has proposed a ...

state of Illinois resources were expended so that Illinois Department of Corrections employees could transport Garvey from her prison in Logan to the Will County Courthouse in downtown Joliet and ...

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The Old Joliet Prison, as it’s known locally, is offering public tours. But the prison outside Chicago is not the Alcatraz of the Midwest. It hasn’t been spruced up with exhibits and an audio ...

Far too many people fail to reenter society after prison because they lack a safe place to sleep and an address to put on an ...

Warden of Stateville is Henry C. Hill, who also is in charge of the old State prison at Joliet, five miles away. Last month three convicts were trapped and killed as they tried to escape from that ...