Nathan Carroll emerged as the unlikely linchpin in the Bonnie Woodward cold-case break, yet he vanished from public view ...

James Harden, now 36, stood outside the walls of Menard Correctional Center in Chester ... The case is among dozens of wrongful convictions in Illinois made public in recent years.

While a handful of changes came about within Monroe County follow the election earlier this year, one nearby community in ...

The role of Black prisoners helped lead to the practice of using genetic testing to understand how patients will react to ...

Much attention has been paid to malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary and the fraught ...

The love I have for my father stretches across concrete and wire, reaching places untouched by the material world.

Incarcerated students accepted their diplomas from Augustana College at a commencement inside East Moline Correctional Center ...

The Old Joliet Prison was open for nearly 150 years and has been closed for more than 20. A section of the prison that has ...

Jared Williams, 19, was sentenced to seven years in prison for the second-degree murder of Mason Loy, who was shot and killed ...

As one of only four territorial prisons open for tours (like the infamous Alcatraz), the Old Idaho Penitentiary offers a look at life behind bars. In 1872, it started receiving criminals to its ...