The Illinois Department of Corrections would move Logan women’s prison onto Stateville Correctional Center site as part of a plan to rebuild both facilities.

If you ask Rhonda Thompson about the problems with Logan Correctional Center, the Illinois prison where she’s incarcerated, she can rattle off a long list. There’s the pollution from the 1930s ...

State Rep. Bill Hauter, R-Morton, estimates 500 jobs leaving central Illinois due to the Logan prison closure. "They’ve stopped the hiring process for anyone at Logan,” said Turner.

The program at Logan Correctional Center is the only one in Illinois and among a small number of programs nationwide where women who are incarcerated can earn a bachelor’s degree.

Prison bus trips offer ‘lifeline’ for kids and incarcerated moms The Reunification Ride program to Logan Correctional Center in downstate Lincoln reconnects families separated by incarceration.

Eric McNamara, a lieutenant at Logan Correctional Center and treasurer of AFSCME Local 2073, organizes the softball tournament among Illinois Department of Corrections employees at the Lincoln ...

Corrections officials said during legislative hearings last summer that they were considering moving the Logan prison from Lincoln in central Illinois to the Stateville campus in Crest Hill, 40 ...

Stateville, a maximum-security men's prison, first opened in 1925, and as of June 30, it housed 568 prisoners, down from nearly 2,000 a year earlier, according to data from the Illinois Department ...

LINCOLN — Correctional officers and other staff at Logan Correctional Center are struggling. With the specter of closure hovering over them, they're having difficulty keeping enough workers, and ...

Stateville, a maximum-security men's prison, first opened in 1925, and as of June 30, it housed 568 prisoners, down from nearly 2,000 a year earlier, according to data from the Illinois Department ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials Friday announced their impending search for a firm to manage the planning and construction of two prisons with a combined budget of $900 million.

LINCOLN — Correctional officers and other staff at Logan Correctional Center are struggling. With the specter of closure hovering over them, they're having difficulty keeping enough workers, and ...