When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...

Pritzker and the Illinois Department ... The prison is located just north of Joliet in Crest Hill. The state is also planning to replace Logan Correctional Center in downstate Lincoln, but that ...

In a Joliet house on Hickory Street back in ... Experts told the I-Team that the Western Illinois Correctional Center was notorious for safety concerns. "Western has long been a facility that ...