Much has been said and written over the years about controversial malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois’ Stateville Penitentiary starting in the 1940s. But at least one part of that ...

The group No New Prisons Illinois is opposed to Governor J. B. Pritzker’s earmarking of $900 million in his proposed state budget to build 2 new state of the art prisons, to replace Stateville ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet heralded by some for clearing the state’s death row, has died. He was 91 ...

Former Illinois Democratic lawmaker Michael Madigan was sentenced to more than seven years in prison following a federal corruption trial in Chicago. Madigan, the longest serving legislative ...

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KWQC) - Illinois lawmakers are proposing a bill that could cut prison time for certain inmates. The bill would challenge the Truth in Sentencing law and reduce the percentage of ...

An Illinois judge sentenced a man to 53 years in prison on Friday for the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old boy in 2023 and the nonfatal stabbing of the boy’s mother, an attack that jurors found to ...

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois landlord who killed a 6-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured the boy’s mother in a brutal hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced ...

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a Chicago gang leader who was convicted for a 1973 murder.. The action was one of several announced by the president on May 28 ...

George H. Ryan, the Illinois governor who reopened a national debate over capital punishment in 2000 by imposing a moratorium on death-row executions in his state, and who later went to prison for ...

Rep. Carol Ammons (D-Urbana) said recent Prison Policy data show nearly 70% of incarcerated people have interest in getting a college degree, but only 3% have post-high school education.

An Illinois landlord convicted of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy in a hate-fueled attack days after the Israel-Hamas war broke out will spend 53 years in prison, according ...