One of the correction officers charged in connection with the beating death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility in December pleaded guilty Monday morning to manslaughter. Christopher ...

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.

A settlement agreement has been reached between the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) and inmates at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley in connection with a violent assault ...

Today, Governor Landry issued an executive order, mandating an immediate and aggressive response across multiple state agencies to address a major breach at the Orleans Parish Correctional Facility ...

“It’s almost impossible, not completely, but almost impossible for anybody to get out of this facility without help,” Hutson said of the Orleans Justice Center, a correctional facility where ...

A Texas man was accused of using a skimming device to steal nearly $600 from vendors at a race track in Joliet. Reginald Hinton was arrested and charged with theft, Joliet police say. Reginald ...

Officers with the Joliet Police Department responded to St. Joseph Medical Center on reports of a child shot just before 12:15 a.m. According to an initial investigation, the five-year-old was ...

Joliet police said a 5-year-old was critically when an 8-year-old relative got ahold of a gun in a home overnight. Police said they were called to St. Joseph Medical Center after a mother brought ...

Correctional officers, staff and the union, AFDCME Council 5, are demanding state leaders stop the closure of Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater. They put forward concerns about public ...