The Illinois Department of Corrections would move Logan women’s prison onto Stateville Correctional Center site as part of a plan to rebuild both facilities.

State Rep. Bill Hauter, R-Morton, estimates 500 jobs leaving central Illinois due to the Logan prison closure. "They’ve stopped the hiring process for anyone at Logan,” said Turner.

Eric McNamara, a lieutenant at Logan Correctional Center and treasurer of AFSCME Local 2073, organizes the softball tournament among Illinois Department of Corrections employees at the Lincoln ...

Corrections officials said during legislative hearings last summer that they were considering moving the Logan prison from Lincoln in central Illinois to the Stateville campus in Crest Hill, 40 ...

Stateville, a maximum-security men's prison, first opened in 1925, and as of June 30, it housed 568 prisoners, down from nearly 2,000 a year earlier, according to data from the Illinois Department ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois must move most of the inmates at its 100-year-old prison within less than two months because of decrepit conditions, a federal judge ruled.

LINCOLN — Correctional officers and other staff at Logan Correctional Center are struggling. With the specter of closure hovering over them, they're having difficulty keeping enough workers, and ...

Stateville, a maximum-security men's prison, first opened in 1925, and as of June 30, it housed 568 prisoners, down from nearly 2,000 a year earlier, according to data from the Illinois Department ...

Corrections officials said during legislative hearings last summer that they were considering moving the Logan prison from Lincoln in central Illinois to the Stateville campus in Crest Hill, 40 ...

Corrections officials said during legislative hearings last summer that they were considering moving the Logan prison from Lincoln in central Illinois to the Stateville campus in Crest Hill, 40 ...

LINCOLN — Correctional officers and other staff at Logan Correctional Center are struggling. With the specter of closure hovering over them, they're having difficulty keeping enough workers, and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials Friday announced their impending search for a firm to manage the planning and construction of two prisons with a combined budget of $900 million.