Convicted former governor Rod Blagojevich left his home early Thursday morning and hopped into a car, the first leg of a trip that landed him in a federal prison in Colorado by the afternoon, the ...

Matthew Kaufman, 45, of Lena, Illinois, was sentenced to 150 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of numerous children ...

Rev. Michael Pfleger and former Chicago mayoral candidate Ja'Mal Green said they've lobbied Pritzker to free the onetime gang ...

A Lanark man is found guilty of sexually abusing two inmates at Thomson prison.

Inmates and staff at the Kalamazoo County Jail have been drinking bottled water for several months.

A Chicago man was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a train traveling through Macoupin County. Marquese C. Douglas, 30, pled guilty to aggravated robbery, Macoupin State’s Attorney Jordan ...

Visits to Hill Correctional Center were canceled beginning Saturday, but visitation was restored for anyone not in a ...

After nearly three decades on death row and nine near-executions, Richard Glossip has been released on bond as he awaits a ...

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Caged in a cell, Jerad Traylor struggled to breathe and cried out for help, pleading that he felt like he was dying. And it turned out his feelings of despair were exactly right. Four days after his ...