Pontiac Correctional Center is shown in 2018. The Illinois Department of Corrections plans to drastically downsize prisons in Pontiac and Vandalia. PANTAGRAPH FILE PHOTO ...

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Corrections has switched gears saying it now wants to close Pontiac Correctional Center instead of Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, a move ...

SPRINGFIELD — A prison guard was injured by an inmate at the Pontiac Correctional Center on Monday, just one month after the Quinn administration moved inmates out of a Southern Illinois lockup ...

PONTIAC - A prison guard was injured by an inmate at the Pontiac Correctional Center Monday, just one month after the Quinn administration moved inmates out of a southern Illinois lock-up designed ...

Davis, 46, died Oct. 13 from an apparent heart attack while on death row at the Pontiac Correctional Center. He died five days before his scheduled clemency hearing before the Illinois Prisoner ...

Wright, who was 74 years old, died of heart failure and other natural causes while housed at the Pontiac Correctional Center on May 5, according to the Livingston County coroner.

He cited ``personal reasons'' for quitting, Winans said. Parker also worked as a guard at the Pontiac Correctional Center for more than a year starting in March 1999.

A 30-year-old correctional officer was convicted on two felony charges in a Livingston County jury trial on June 25 th. Michael Churin from Bridgeview was found guilty on the charge of the Unlawful ...

A person incarcerated at the Omaha Correctional Center died Tuesday at an Omaha hospital, according to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services.

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