Now, almost three decades after his arrest, a judge will decide whether to release Robert Johnson later this month.

Erick vividly remembers stepping off a plane at the Texas-Mexico border, shackled, when he was deported in 2013. The group he was with was marched single-file across the border to Matamoros, Mexico, ...

More than 130 people allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois.

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted ...

A former Joliet housing authority official and vocal supporter of former Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk was able to avoid prison ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

How did the proposed prison make it to 2025 and what are the common questions that continue to be addressed in various ...

A court in Stockholm on Tuesday convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious ...

SHELTON, Wash. — A 66-year-old Shelton, Washington, man was sentenced to 90 months in prison Friday for his role in a drug trafficking ring connected to Aryan prison gangs. Michael Warren was ...

How the plan is enacted could also have major impacts on communities with economies that rely on those prisons. “Anything depends on how it’s executed,” said Claire Shubik-Richards, the executive ...