A new law requires the Illinois Department of Corrections to publish annual data on contraband, substance abuse treatment, ...

4 IL federal prisons among nation's 20 most infected with COVID-19 Illinois is tied with Texas for the most infected federal facilities ...

Lockdowns can be indistinguishable from solitary confinement-like conditions, with those incarcerated given little yard time and limited access to educational programming and commissary.

New questions were being raised Tuesday night about how many inmates have actually been released from state prisons because of the COVID-19 crisis, and whether there are dangerous felons among them?

Brandon Simonson, a white supremacist from Minnesota, was sentenced to life in prison for the hate crime murder of a Jewish ...

Guilty on all counts. A jury found the man who opened fire on an Illinois State Police trooper guilty of five counts he faced ...

Joseph Czuba, 73, was serving a 53-year sentence for a 2023 hate crime that shocked the nation in the days after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel.