Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

We thought the best way to get into the conversation was to bypass all of the stereotypical conversations that people imagine having with people serving long-term sentences and really dive into ...

A second Joliet man, Ryan Gooch, 19, has been arrested in connection with a shooting last month on Youngs Avenue. Gooch faces ...

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.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

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 ...

Giovanni Simpson, 18, was arrested Friday at his workplace in Channahon in connection with a Jan. 18 shooting in Joliet. He faces charges of aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated ...

It has a mock-up prison cell, to be used as part of a therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation programme for ex-offenders to reflect in. The cell is also open to the public to show just how ...

Talib tells his story of incarceration and his efforts to change how people are punished from the foot of a bed inside, not a real prison cell. >> This is an exact replica. Pretty much.

The alleged incident took place when Martins was visiting the Queen of Apostles parish in Joliet in November, as part of the Relic of St. Jude's nationwide American tour directed by Martins' ...

“One concrete consequence of this change is that more people will be incarcerated and for longer periods, which will lead to increased pressure on the Swedish prison system,” Justice Minister Gunnar ...