CREST HILL, Ill. (CBS) -- The State of Illinois has started moving inmates out of Stateville Correctional Center—which is set ...

Gov. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) announced plans Friday morning to tear down and rebuild Stateville Correctional Center. IDOC will work with officials on a timeline ...

A Statesville man received a minimum sentence of just under six years in prison in an Iredell County drug case. 45-year-old ...

An Illinois State Police (ISP), investigation regarding a Department of Corrections officer’s actions against an inmate at Stateville Prison has resulted in criminal charges of aggravated battery ...

Hughes said current Stateville employees can work elsewhere after the prison closes. “Should staffing patterns hold, the department estimates that approximately 1,000 Illinois Department of ...

The federal civil rights complaints alleged First Amendment violations and retaliation. The Department of Corrections did not admit fault in either settlement.

Update on a previously published video of Stateville Prison Guard, Officer Chris Koziol’s alleged battery for repeatedly punching an inmate while other officers looked on. He was indicted and charged ...

“It’s everything to them,” said Melly Rios, whose husband is in Stateville Correctional Center serving 45 years for murder. A recent report from the John Howard Association, a prison watchdog group, ...

Screenwriter Sammy Horowitz was incarcerated for almost a decade. He said he spent three of those years in the recently ...

She’s talking with the Northwestern administrators and the Illinois Department of Corrections about ... I know my class has improved the prison community at Stateville and improved the quality of life ...

Jennifer Lackey, the Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program and the ... including interviews conducted at facilities throughout Illinois. “We are delighted to be welcoming them to ...