SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — For the third time in 10 weeks, a suspicious inmate death at Menard Correctional Center in far southern Illinois has been ruled a homicide. Randolph County Coroner Randy ...

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.

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

The Innocence Project at the University of Illinois Springfield took up ... As a result, Onsrud was released from the Menard Correctional Center. Villarreal has said the case against Onsrud ...

(AP) — A former Boy Scout volunteer from southwestern Illinois has begun serving ... News-Democrat reports that Demers entered the Menard Correctional Center on Thursday to begin his prison ...

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

This Father’s Day, listen to Prisoncast! on WBEZ to hear stories of moms, dads and children working to love each other across ...

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

Much has been said and written over the years about controversial malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois’ ...

The judge who sentenced Michael Madigan to 7 1/2 years in prison said the former Illinois House speaker's testimony was “a nauseating display of perjury and evasion” that was “hard to watch.” “You ...

This weekend, Harrison will be distributing her book to male inmates at the Danville Correctional Center in Illinois. Harrison joined ABC7 in studio Thursday to talk about the book. The full ...