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.

a women’s prison in downstate Lincoln, then rebuild both facilities on the Stateville campus near Joliet. The state Capital Development Board recently said it will soon seek proposals for two ...

The Old Joliet Prison, as it’s known locally, is offering public tours. But the prison outside Chicago is not the Alcatraz of the Midwest. It hasn’t been spruced up with exhibits and an audio ...

The state said it’s anticipated this plan will temporarily close and demolish Stateville with a new correctional facility to be built on its grounds. The prison is located just north of Joliet ...

Will County State’s Attorney’s Office sentenced Tamica Neal, 45, to 1 year in prison for fatally stabbing a dog in 2024. On ...

In a Joliet house on Hickory Street back in 2013 ... ineligible for parole and was serving his time at the state prison about an hour east of the Missouri border, when Ortega was placed to ...

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 ...