At the Nuremberg trials, defense attorneys for Nazi doctors introduced text and images from the Life article about Stateville prison, though an Illinois physician argued at the trials that the ...

CHICAGO — The family of a man who died while in custody at Stateville Correctional Center during an early summer heat wave sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, a prison health care ...

Stateville was built in 1925 as a maximum-security prison with state-of-the-art panopticon structures where every cell could be observed from a central guard station.

Advocates call for safer conditions and release for some inmates as jails including Stateville Correctional Center have become COVID-19 hotspots.

Maxson was smiling and elated as he walked out of the Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet where he has spent over 20 years of his life. He was released hours after a Cook County judge threw ...