Larry Hoover, 74, denounced his past and has been locked up for more than 50 years. But Trump is hardly the harbinger of ...

Juan Hernandez was a teenager when he was sentenced to prison. He was 32 when he finally completed his high school education.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new law Friday to make a series of changes to the Prisoner Review Board after it released a man who ...

"It's like being buried alive." Situated amid rolling hills and farms in the southern tip of Illinois, this "super-max" prison was built during the get-tough-on-crime wave that swept the nation in ...

On March 12, 2024, the PRB voted to release Brand citing a lack of evidence to keep him behind bars, the Sun-Times reported.

As Illinois prisons face continued risk of substance exposure and staff assaults, State Sen. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, is once again calling for change in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Given the limitations of a prison, the showing of “And So I Stayed ... sentencing relief for victims of domestic violence has been possible in Illinois since 2016, when the state became ...

A Decatur man was sentenced last week to more than four decades in prison for a murder last year that an accomplice described ...

The mob boss who once controlled the south suburbs and Northwest Indiana has died in a Minnesota federal prison at age 88. Dominick "Tootsie" Palermo, who made his home in South Holland and in ...