A former federal prison guard has been charged with sexually abusing four inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago. Brittany Hall, 31, a correctional officer who was ...

CHICAGO – Two convicted bank robbers were on the run after using a knotted rope or bed sheets to escape from a federal prison window high above downtown Chicago early Tuesday, a week after one ...

MCC-Chicago is a federal prison facility in downtown Chicago. Correctional officer Brittany Hall was assigned to a unit where female inmates were held, according to the court documents.

Project Safe Neighborhoods, led by the U.S. Justice Department, has been in place since 2001 in seven West and South side ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois on Wednesday announced the expansion of its Project Safe ...

Kelly was back at the federal ... days at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, die-hard fans would demonstrate outside the downtown jail. That reportedly spurred prison authorities ...

CHICAGO — A woman who spent nearly three decades in prison for a murder she did not commit has filed a federal lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department and several individual officers ...

(AP) CHICAGO - Authorities say two men being held on bank robbery charges have escaped from a downtown Chicago federal prison. Chicago Police Sgt. Michael Lazarro says their disappearance was ...