After 12 years, the class action lawsuit over living conditions at Stateville Correctional Center that helped bring the ...

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 ...

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 ...

and look back at a music program that put on concerts inside the now-closed Stateville prison. Yachts, yoga & how one man fought his wrongful conviction The second hour features a 2021 WBEZ invest ...