The last men incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center have been transferred out of the aging facility as of Monday, bringing the 100-year-old prison to a close, according to the Illinois ...

Here, last week, occurred the first major prison riot of the year. Warden of Stateville is Henry C. Hill, who also is in charge of the old State prison at Joliet, five miles away. Last month three ...

Disability rights group Equip for Equality filed a motion Thursday for a preliminary injunction to immediately transfer the last men incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center out of the facility.

For Carrie, in Logan women’s prison, it’s gratitude for “rain falling on my forehead and grass between my toes.” A parade of ...

They’re setting out to prove that. Horowitz had heard about the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP), a four-year undergraduate program at Stateville Prison. He reached out to NPEP director ...

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 ...

claims that after IDOC closed Stateville in 2024 due to unsafe living conditions, it failed to move individuals with ...

A year after her 11-year-old son was stabbed to death, a Chicago woman has filed a lawsuit claiming the Illinois ...

ABSTRACT: This research was conducted in Mekelle in the years leading up to the 2020 Tigray War. It explores the interconnected nature of the prison system and broader social dynamics, with a focus on ...