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

Last week’s election brought big wins for Republicans nationwide: Donald Trump secured both the electoral college and popular ...

An ex-inmate's family is suing Illinois, alleging his death could have been prevented.Michael Broadway, 51, was an inmate at ...

The family of a man who died while in custody at Stateville Correctional Center during an early summer heat wave sued the ...

The lawsuit comes after a WBEZ investigation found serious problems with record keeping and implementation. It could affect ...

A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices — and then spent years laundering some of the ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted what have been lengthy sentences served by six criminal offenders in state ...

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

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

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