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

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 ...

Ryan Gooch, age 19, was taken into custody by members of the US Marshals Great Lakes Fugitive Task Force at a house in Joliet ...

The latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

Centenarian Loretta Chamberlain spent her special day getting fingerprinted, meeting a K-9 and briefly being locked in a cell ...

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

Each year, about 2,475 prisoners return to Milwaukee County. This raises a critical question: Who do we want these ...

A second suspect has been apprehended in the investigation of a Jan. 18 shooting on Youngs Avenue in Joliet. He’s also ...

A second judge has found fault with a Will County sheriff’s deputy search of a vehicle that led to the 2022 arrest of a ...