An inmate in a California state prison was allegedly killed by two other inmates on Friday evening, the California Department ...

Of ex-Stateville inmates, 261 — or 64% — locked up for 30 or more years are now sitting in medium-security prisons, according to the AP review.

About 70 state prison inmates were brought in from around Oregon to perform field work to help "defend in place" Deer Ridge ...

CRANSTON — Nestled into an industrial park in Cranston, the former medium-security state prison is still surrounded by barbed-wire fences and bars are still on the windows.

Of ex-Stateville inmates, 261 — or 64% — locked up for 30 or more years are now sitting in medium-security prisons, according to the AP review.

A medium-security prison will be built on a site near U.S. 58 in Grayson County and not on a more controversial site in the small Grayson community of Cox Chapel.

When Illinois' century-old maximum-security Stateville prison closed last summer, four in five inmates were transferred to medium-security facilities despite violent backgrounds, data shows.

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving ...