Advocates are calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to permanently close the state's deactivated prisons before they can be ...

Advocates are calling on Governor Newsom to fully decommission shuttered state prisons and prevent them from being repurposed ...

Former Illinois Democratic lawmaker Michael Madigan was sentenced to more than seven years in prison following a federal corruption trial in Chicago.  Madigan, the longest serving legislative ...

Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until ...

In February, a jury convicted Madigan, 83, of bribery conspiracy, wire fraud and other crimes. He was sentenced Friday to 7.5 ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A former state correctional officer pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of wire fraud in connection with a ...

Michael Madigan, once the most powerful figure in Illinois politics, was sentenced to seven and a half years in federal ...

U.S. District Judge John Blakey handed down the sentence Friday, four months after the former Illinois House speaker was ...

Michael J. Madigan, who for decades was one of the most influential Democrats in Illinois politics, was convicted of ...

The bill sponsor hopes the prison can be retooled to provide healthcare and help solve the state's psychiatric bed shortage.

A drug trafficker who reportedly had thousands of wax sleeves of fentanyl, cocaine and a gun magazine at his residence in ...