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 — Will County's judges continue to utilize the Illinois SAFE-T-Act to keep Joliet citizens accused of violent crimes ...

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

The Will County Center for Correctional Concerns provides free GED tests for detainees at the jail, but needs donations.

A Joliet man who has tattoos that say "Killinois" and "Angel Of Death" has been serving life in prison for the 2020 murder of a 25-year-old man.

“Orange County is proud to invest 18,9 million dollars in this courthouse, which is three times the size of the old courthouse,” he said. Some of the services available to residents will ...

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 DuPage County judge sentenced Tia Brewer, a former Wheaton resident, to 40 years in prison for her involvement in the 2018 murder of 18-year-old Luis ... pit located on Joliet Street, where ...

Your next stop is a tour at the Old Joliet Prison, best known for its most popular, fictional inmate “Joliet Jake" Blues from the 1980 film “The Blues Brothers." Since then, it has made a number of ...

The high-security Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a decade or more, and with little due process. In 2013, 30,000 incarcerated people went on a hunger ...

It wasn’t until she was signing the lease agreement that someone said, “Did you know this is an old prison?” Indeed, the development, now called Liberty, had a former life as the Lorton ...

JOLIET, Ill. - A Crestwood woman who fatally stabbed a dog in the southwest suburbs last year was sentenced to one year in prison. Tamica Neal, 45, had been convicted of aggravated cruelty to ...