In the fall of 2018, a guard at the state’s Pontiac Correctional Center told his supervisor an incarcerated man had masturbated at the front of his cell while staring at him.

Pontiac Correctional Center. Jesse Dukes. ... amid criminal proceedings of three guards charged in the 2018 death of Larry Earvin while he was incarcerated at Western Illinois Correctional Center.

In the fall of 2018, a guard at Illinois’ Pontiac Correctional Center, told his supervisor that an incarcerated man had masturbated at the front of his cell while staring at him.

An inmate charged in a November 2022 attack on correctional officers at Pontiac Correctional Center has been sentenced to 60 more years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. In a plea ...

Members of the AFSCME Could 31 union will hold an informational picket from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Members will be outside the Pontiac Correctional Center and other prisons throughout the state ...

The hazing and sexual harassment of an employee at Pontiac Correctional Center in 2018 led to a shake-up of the maximum security prison’s top staff last year, according to an inspector general ...

PONTIAC — Residents and local elected officials continue to seek answers about plans to close parts of the Pontiac Correctional Center, the third-largest employer in Livingston County. “We ...

Pontiac Correctional Center began as a youth reform school in the 1860s. Over the decades, it has become Illinois` roughest prison, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (CN) – Illinois can’t transfer prisoners from its maximum-security Pontiac prison yet, a state judge has ruled. Johnson County Judge James Williamson said the state must address ...

The scene from west of Pontiac Correctional Center during the riot on July 22, 1978. Part one: Rumors, violence, red flags preceded the 1978 Pontiac Correctional Center riot Part two: 'It was just ...

PONTIAC — Six Illinois Department of Corrections officers suffered injuries in an apparent fight with five inmates Sunday at the Pontiac Correctional Center, the Chicago Tribune reported on its ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is resuming in-person visitation at its correctional facilities statewide that were halted because of the pandemic. Visitations will start at Lincoln ...