An Illinois man who was sentenced to 53 years in prison for the murder of a young Palestinian American boy in a 2023 hate crime that shocked the nation has died in prison, authorities said Saturday.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections has implemented a mail-scanning policy to curb drug contraband in prisons, but critics ...

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) – Two guards and a chaplain were injured Tuesday in an Illinois prison attack that union officials said involved up to 15 inmates, the latest in a series of violent incidents at ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Illinois prison officials have until the end of September to move most of the people held at Stateville Correctional Center in southwest suburban Crest Hill to other prisons around the ...

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Government workers will be picketing outside Illinois prisons Thursday afternoon to demand safer working conditions. Members of the AFSCME Could 31 union will hold an informational picket from 2 to ...

This story is a collaboration between Illinois Answers and the Chicago bureau of MindSite News. Bloomington native Shayla ...