On Tuesday, a Madison County associated judge sentenced a 26-year-old man to consecutive life sentences for stabbing his adoptive father and spouse to death.

A Beach Park man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison after he was convicted of driving from Lake County to western ...

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, ...

Illinois lawmakers are considering a bill that would make a resentencing possibility for inmates serving lengthy sentences ...

Two Fiji Corrections Service officers have been dismissed following their involvement in a drug-related incident uncovered during a recent police operation. During a raid conducted by police at a ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says even though her order expires next month that bars the rehiring of corrections workers involved in wildcat strikes, she is urging future ...

A Delaware Department of Correction officer who was arrested earlier this week after police found more than 5.8 grams of meth in her bag while inside a New Castle County prison blamed an inmate ...

He had been held at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, which holds westerners, dual nationals and political prisoners often used by Tehran as bargaining chips in negotiations with the West.

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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 ...

A Peoria man was sentenced to 85 years in prison Wednesday for killing a 24-year-old man in South Peoria in September 2022. Domincue D. Linwood, 26, had his sentence handed down by Peoria County ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Illinois Department of Corrections is in the process of implementing a pilot program to scan mail for prisons to receive letters and other communication virtually.