The goal of the Vienna Correctional Center’s “Orange Is the New Green” program is simple — to prepare inmates to go outside when they are released. The program teaches correctional center ...

VIENNA (WSIL) — Dozens of inmates at Vienna Correctional Center are getting some experience with gardening while behind bars. The center provides the gardening program for inmates who have a ...

VIENNA — Corey Trainer and Mahendra Anderson hope to take what they learn in prison back to the streets — and the soil. The Chicago natives are among about two dozen inmates at the Vienna ...

VIENNA, IL (KFVS) - The Vienna Correctional Center was placed on a level 4 lockdown after an assault on an officer Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 12. According to Tom Schaer, director of communications ...

VIENNA, IL (KFVS) - The Vienna Correctional Center in Johnson County, Illinois has been at the center of a class action lawsuit filed by inmates in 2012. Three inmates on behalf of several hundred ...

SPRINGFIELD - John Howard Association officials say inmates at the Vienna Correctional Center allegedly continue to struggle with poor living conditions, despite the Illinois Department of ...

Over the four decades since, the Vienna Correctional Center has become not only the town’s biggest employer and economic lifeblood but its identity as well. So when Gov. George Ryan announced ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Members of Illinois media organizations have been invited to tour the Vienna Correctional Center in southern Illinois. The Illinois Department of Corrections sent the ...

Senator Fowler sent out a statement on the afternoon of September 25, after he said he received reports of unknown substance exposures at Shawnee Correctional Center and Vienna Correctional Center ...

A Vienna Correctional Center inmate who was accidentally released by the Illinois Department of Corrections is back in custody. Corrections Department spokesman Tom Shaer says 38-year-old Michael ...

When Don Macklin entered the Vienna Correctional Center on Feb. 28, 1984, to begin serving a three-year sentence for burglary, he experienced a moment of truth. It was not simply a part of the ...