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. Elon Musk calls Trump-backed ...

STATE CORRECTIONS OFFICIALS ARE INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF AN INMATE AT MULE CREEK STATE PRISON IN IONE ON MAY 21ST. LORENZO JONES WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN HIS CELL. DESPITE ATTEMPTS TO REVIVE HIM.

Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional Center amid a lawsuit over the aging prison’s deteriorating condition. But as state lawmakers negotiate the ...

Retired Chicago Police Officer of Joliet, Il, and formerly Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood, passed away at home on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at the age of 92. Visitation for Paul will be Wednesday ...

A program at Folsom State Prison is helping inmates grow from the inside out with classes, community service and a focus on character. White House dismisses scores of National Security Council ...

BAYPORT, Minn. — State leaders have agreed to a “phased closure” of the Stillwater state prison which will be completed in 2029, citing safety and costly maintenance concerns at the historic ...

A court on Monday in Oklahoma sentenced the serial bank robber to a 32-year term in state prison that will run concurrently with his federal sentence of 17½ years. After Babudar serves the ...

The Kansas City superfan known as “ChiefsAholic,” who was sentenced last year to a federal prison term after he admitted to having committed multiple bank robberies, was handed an additional ...

A Meadville-area man will spend a total of seven and a half years to 25 years in state prison for assaults on his two young children ages 1 month and 5 years. Tyler Thomas Acker, 27, who resides ...

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 ...

A person incarcerated at Folsom State Prison was stabbed in the yard on Thursday, officials said.The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said staff observed the person’s ...

GLENVILLE, Ga. (WTOC) - After learning a corrections officer at Smith State Prison was fired and is under investigation for the sexual assault of an inmate recently, now we’re learning that the ...