A Joliet man is dead after a single-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon. Police say 59-year-old Manuel Salas was driving east on West Jefferson Street near Barney Drive when his pickup truck veered off ...

CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been charged with murder in a deadly New Year’s Day stabbing in Little Village. Freddy Diaz, 44, ...

Inmates at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham were given the opportunity in the fall of 2024 to learn alongside seniors at Horace Mann School, an elite private school in New York City.

JARRATT, Va. — Three correctional officers have been arrested in connection with two separate incidents of reported violence at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. The Virginia ...

Officers in Joliet recovered a handgun modified to fire automatically, as well as a second handgun and rifle in the investigation of several teens in masks possibly armed on the city’s east side. Two ...

A new chapter for the property and surrounding community that includes the removal of the prison buildings and associated past memories of mass incarceration at the site. * Reconnecting the ...

I spent more hours than I can count meeting with teenage clients in the dingy visiting room at the Oak Hill Youth Center, Washington’s youth prison. Infested with rats, roaches and even snakes ...

IDOC signed another intergovernmental agreement with Elementary School District 54 in Morris to support training efforts for cadets in the Northern Region, who will go on to serve at Joliet Treatment ...

An arrest warrant was quashed for a Catholic priest charged with putting a girl’s hair in his mouth in Joliet and he will next appear in court on Feb. 24, court records show. Patrick Kenneally, an ...

Michigan City residents said they would like to see housing, mixed-use development or more green space at the Indiana State Prison site. The city held the first public meeting last week on how to ...

JOLIET — On Monday, from 1:30 to 6:00 p.m., the Joliet Community Center Hall will host a Vitalant blood drive. “I received multiple pints, liters, possibly even gallons of blood," said Ashley ...