The administration’s efforts — from mass deportation to harsher punishments for some crimes — rely on access to more prison ...

John Gierek, 35, pleaded guilty to two counts of using an interstate commerce facility in the commission of a murder-for-hire ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent offenses.

Imprisoned former Ald. Edward M. Burke's Burnham Committee gave the money to a fund for Justice Joy V. Cunningham days after ...

Correctional officer unions are backing a bill introduced earlier this month that would change how mail is processed in federal prisons.

We thought the best way to get into the conversation was to bypass all of the stereotypical conversations that people imagine having with people serving long-term sentences and really dive into ...

In a ceremony surrounded by masked Palestinian militants and rubble from the Gaza war, Hamas on Saturday released three ...

"All it has done is put more people back in jail," Kane County's sheriff told county lawmakers about a law that eliminated cash bail in the state in 2023.

A second federal judge paused President Trump's executive order halting federal support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 19.

Most folks just figured that Mike Madigan had avoided the long arm of federal law by being extra-careful. And he may have been. But the arrogance of immense power apparently overrode his sense of self ...

During President Donald Trump’s first week in office, he signed 10 executive orders on immigration and issued a slew of ...

A Peoria teen could be tried as an adult for allegedly robbing a sanitation worker on Peoria’s East Bluff on Thursday. Anna ...