SPRINGFIELD — Citing a reduction in the state's prison population and the increasing cost of maintaining older structures, the Illinois Department of Corrections plans to drastically downsize ...

PONTIAC — The death of an inmate early Tuesday morning at the Pontiac Correctional Center is being investigated as a homicide, the first at the prison in almost 25 years.

PONTIAC — Randy Pfister, acting warden at Pontiac Correctional Center, has been placed on administrative leave and is under investigation by the Illinois State Police.

Under the Pontiac plan, the state could close the Pontiac prison in January or February of 2009 while at the same time moving the inmates to Thomson.

At a hearing in Oakland County Circuit Court on Tuesday afternoon, Timothy Daugherty was sentenced to 10-15 years incarceration for six counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct that happened at ...

Ryan and Jennifer Ambrosio were killed on Jan. 6, 2024, him speeding in a stolen pickup truck — driving the wrong way on M-10 ...

SPRINGFIELD — A prison guard was injured by an inmate at the Pontiac Correctional Center on Monday, just one month after the Quinn administration moved inmates out of a Southern ...

The Michigan High School Soccer Coaches Association recently released this year’s girls soccer All-State teams, and as usual, ...

A 22-year-old Livonia man is expected to be arraigned later this week in Gladwin County after being arrested Friday for ...

NEW YORK – Jurors are set to start deliberating Monday in Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ sex trafficking case, weighing charges that ...