Auditor General Frank Mautino’s office reviewed payroll reports at Stateville and Dixon prisons and found employees used a ...

Will County Judge Vincent Cornelius rendered Tuesday's decision following Elijah Watson's bench trial in March of 2024.

A budget buffer: Pritzker directed state agencies to carve out 4 percent from their operating budgets and stash the savings ...

Here are 11 spots across the state that are reputed to be haunted — including some places ranked among the most haunted in America. Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago: Lions and tigers and ghosts, oh my! Did ...

NBC Chicago’s resident haunted house lover, meteorologist Kevin Jeanes, is joined by the digital team’s Alex Fisher, who hates haunted houses, to brave their way through The Old Joliet Haunted Prison.

The Michigan City Common Council unanimously passed a resolution questioning the state’s decision to reverse course and keep open the Indiana State Prison facility. The resolution was sponsored by all ...

For Nashville’s The Interim, 1981 was an extraordinary year for news. The October edition broke a big story, issued with a dramatic, all-caps headline: “THREE ESCAPE FROM MAIN PRISON.” For The Interim ...

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a prison inmate in Somerset County.State police said correctional officers found Donyell Cornell Morris, 24, unresponsive in his cell Sunday ...

Michigan’s first state prison is set to find new life as a farmers market next year. Renovations have already started on the former prison, which hasn’t been active since 1934. Grow Jackson expressed ...