Many who’ve been through restrictive housing attest to extreme isolation and confinement in small, dark, windowless cells.

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 ...

CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Lawmakers from around Illinois recently met with staff from the Pontiac Correctional Center to discuss unsafe work conditions. WCIA reported that prison workers from Central ...

A federal court ordered the evacuation of Stateville Correctional Center because of its dilapidated condition.

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Chicago in preparation for replacing the century-old lockup.

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Chicago in preparation for replacing the century-old lockup.

Erin Hooley Stateville Correctional Center, a historic but dilapidated prison set to close and a replacement built, can be seen Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Crest Hill, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) ...