President Trump, now convicted of felonies himself, pardoned the former Illinois governor on Feb. 10, 2025 — almost five ...

Netflix's popular psychological thriller Mindhunter has engaged audiences with its chilling exploration of criminal psychology and the birth of modern crime profiling methods.

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

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) -- It was featured in movie classics such as "The Sting" and "The Blues Brothers," and now another major motion picture will film scenes at the former Joliet Correctional Center.

guards and wardens to show the history of the Joliet Correctional Center on Collins Street, the adjacent Women's Prison and Stateville. The exhibit shares its title with an 1856 novel by Charles ...

A South Side man with a long criminal record as a conman, thief and scammer was sentenced to 14 years in prison in connection to two very different felony cases. In one case, Tirnell Williams, 45, ...

Andrew Ortega, 44, was discovered in his Western Illinois Correctional Center cell on the morning ... that in 2013 lured and killed two men in Joliet. The crime was labeled the "Nightmare on ...

This original cell block sits inside the Old Joliet Correctional Center. Tour guide Larry Arroyo said he has felt an eerie energy on the site. In the old processing area, where inmates ...

The plan is part of a nearly $1 billion project that includes tearing down Logan Correctional Center, a women’s prison ... site in Crest Hill, near Joliet. State officials previously said ...

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 ...

which has been home to the now-closed Joliet Correctional Center for more than 150 years. He also said the detention facility would bring hundreds of jobs to a city hit hard by the recession.