A Kilwinning teenager who sexually assaulted a girl after a house party has been told that his age had saved him from being sent to prison.

Illinois Republicans are speaking out after Gov. JB Pritzker signed changes to the state's Prisoner Review Board.

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

U.S. District Judge James Sweeney sentenced Otha Don Watkins III, 43, of Cairo, Illinois to five years in federal prison ...

The man who served nearly 60 years in prison for The Starved Rock Murders has died. Chester Weger died Sunday at the age 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 his seventh annual budget, balanced as promised with spending cuts, taxes and one-time revenue boosts ...

Much has been said and written over the years about controversial malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois’ Stateville Penitentiary starting in the 1940s. But at least one part of ...

Logan Porter battled traffic and airport security to get to Denver, and now the San Francisco Giants catcher is ready for his first big league game since 2023. San Francisco Giants placed Patrick ...

LOGAN — The Hocking County Common Pleas Court has resentenced William and Bobbi Jo McFarland of Rockbridge and indicated they will be released from prison, where they had been sent ...

New paper sheds light on experience of Black prisoners in infamous Illinois prison malaria experiments Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; ...

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