Officials say Stateville’s budget has stayed relatively level because of an increase in the population of a reception center ...

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The family of a man who died while in prison at Stateville Correctional Center this summer has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections, accusing prison staff ...

The state is on track to have moved all but a few inmates out of Stateville Correctional ... around Illinois, leaving the storied maximum security facility in Crest Hill, near Joliet, almost ...

30—Union workers planned to picket outside Stateville Correctional Center Thursday ... that will receive transfers from Stateville. The Illinois Department of Corrections said Thursday 103 ...

CREST HILL — Dozens of men have begun to be transferred out of Stateville Correctional Center just north of Joliet as debates ... out of Stateville, Illinois Department of Corrections ...

A federal judge earlier this month ordered most Stateville inmates be moved out by Sept. 30 after civil rights lawyers argued the conditions in the aging prison were too hazardous.

Jerrell Matthews has known for months that he’d be transferring from Stateville Correctional Center, a men’s maximum-security prison outside of Joliet where he’s lived for the last six years.

The looming closure of Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet has some of the men locked ... citing health and security concerns, ordered Illinois prison officials to transfer the majority ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Illinois prison officials have until the end of September to move most of the people held at Stateville Correctional Center in southwest suburban Crest Hill to other prisons around ...