The fight over a hemp bill that never got called overshadowed legislation that was passed during the Illinois General ...

John Howard Association Executive Director Jennifer Vollen-Katz is calling for major changes within the criminal justice ...

Illinois should join these states in recognizing that education is a powerful tool for reducing recidivism. Research from the Yale Policy Lab shows prison education programs have a profound effect ...

According to initial reconstructions, the capture of hostages It happened around 11:30 in the infirmary of the Arles prison, during the routine treatment of the prisoner. The Minister of Justice, ...

Bankston had no signs of trauma or any suspicious marks, authorities said. He had previously told jail officials that he had a terminal underlying health condition, officials said.

Hyeon Soo Lim, a Canadian pastor who was jailed in North Korea from 2015-2017, believes his foreigners-only prison was in ...

The move affects 37 men, including Ronald Mikos, a 76-year-old Illinois doctor. Mikos, the oldest man on federal death row, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- President Joe Biden announced overnight he was commuting the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners to life in prison without parole, including two from Illinois. President ...

Italian prisons should create “love rooms” so inmates can have sex with their wives or partners, say rights activists.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An Illinois inmate serving prison time after a failed drug test was housed with a convicted heinous murderer. Now that man is dead, and months after no arrest, his family has ...