Many people know that prisons in the United States are divided into a five-tier security level system, but few know what those rankings actually mean. The classification of inmates is probably the ...

Yet, nearly four in five of the offenders formerly housed at the suburban Chicago lockup were not shipped to top-level maximum-security prisons, where the toughest criminals, troublemakers and ...

Yet nearly four in five of the offenders formerly housed at the Crest Hill lockup north of Joliet were not shipped to top-level maximum-security prisons, where the toughest criminals ...

The other dedicated over 20 years of career service in maximum and medium security ... in prisons. Due in part to rising prison populations, understaffing has reached unsustainable levels, and ...