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 ...

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 ...

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.

Marni Yang, convicted in 2011 for murdering Rhoni Reuter in 2007, is serving two life sentences at Logan Correctional Center ...

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. The Illinois Department ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...