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.

Shut down for nearly five years, Patrick Walsh, attorney and owner of Andy & Sophie's Bar, totally restored the bar and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A woman accused of participating in the brutal murder of a man in West Chicago in 2018 will spend four decades in prison. Following a four-day-long sentencing hearing, 22-year-old Tia Brewer, a former ...

Tia Brewer, 22, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for her role in the 2018 murder of Luis Guerrero. Brewer pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping. Three of the four ...

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 ...

A woman accused of participating in the brutal murder of a man in West Chicago in 2018 will spend four decades in prison. Following a four-day-long sentencing hearing, 22-year-old Tia Brewer ...