A Chicago, Ill., man was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for distributing drugs near a Dubuque college. Willie Smith, 27, recently received the 33-month prison sentence in U.S.

More than 20 years into his incarceration, criminal justice reform advocates say Carter is among roughly 1,200 people in prison in Illinois who, under legislation being considered in Springfield, ...

In December, a federal jury in the Southern District of Illinois convicted him of one count of felon in possession of a firearm. A judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison plus four years of ...

Twenty-eight-year-old Marcus Fair of Dolton, Illinois was sentenced, Wednesday, March 12, to more than 4 years in federal prison for the possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. The United ...

(WAOW) -- An Illinois man will spend more than a decade ... old Edwin Lewis of Park Forest was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. Charges include conspiring to possess and distribute ...

A Chicago man was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for distributing drugs near a Dubuque college. Willie Smith, 27, recently received the 33-month prison sentence in U.S. District ...

Federal prison employees are bracing themselves for ... reported on how a warden tasked with reforming a prison in Illinois that had an “enormous problem with inmate abuse” found the union ...

who is serving time in a federal prison in Indiana. “It’s what guarantees that the officer who beats you will get away with it. Maybe a lack of a union can result in more transparency here.” The ...

A St. Louis man convicted of using fake checks in a vehicle sale scheme was sentenced Wednesday in Illinois federal court.

A Skokie man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison in a multi-million dollar bank fraud case that involved a ...

Illinois’ prison population continues to shrink ... as women are still in decrepit facilities at Logan. At the orders of federal judge Andrea Wood, who found that prison conditions posed “a risk of ...