The Old Joliet Prison, as it’s known locally ... Wheelock in the castellated Gothic style. The second-oldest prison in Illinois, built to house 1,800 people, was already over capacity ...

The season is set in the fictional Fox River State Penitentiary near Chicago but was actually filmed at the historical Joliet ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

JOLIET — Less than three weeks after Joliet police deployed a Taser upon 30-year-old Antonio Geiler ... the ex-Illinois Department of Corrections prison inmate now on parole finds himself ...

Andrew Ortega was sent to Western Illinois Correctional Center in 2024 ... from Joliet." In a Joliet house on Hickory Street back in 2013, Miner lured two men -- 22-year-old friends Eric Glover ...