Michael Broadway's family claims staff at Stateville Correctional Center "watched Michael slowly perish while gasping for ...

Michael Broadway, 51, died months before a judge ordered Stateville prison vacated. A new lawsuit aims to hold the state ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 ...

It is the first concrete move the Illinois Department of Corrections has taken to begin the project since Gov. J.B. Pritzker ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ... The figure is around $300,000 per bed in Alabama, Illinois and Georgia. Sanders’ $470 million estimate for a 3,000-bed prison, though, works out to just $157,000 ...

In Illinois, formerly incarcerated people can vote as soon as they get out of prison, unlike many other states. "This is ...

The law, signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in 2021 ... Since the act took effect in 2022, the Illinois Prison Project has helped nine people with dementia successfully petition for their release.

Trump’s campaign promises included mass deportations of people in the country illegally, and his history includes rolling ...

A Black attorney who formerly worked on the staff of the Republican-controlled Mississippi State Senate was the target of ...

Illinois State representative Adam Niemerg (R-Dieterich) has now requested a meeting and tour of two prison facilities in his district. According to a press release from Rep. Niemerg, the goal of ...

In 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States ... a Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois, was the first African American elected president ...