KANE COUNTY, Ill. (CBS) — A judge on Thursday sentenced an Aurora man to 13 years in prison convicted of a sexual assault ...

It was a painting of hands reaching out from behind a prison barred window, a cigarette dangling from the fingers, with ...

Seth Perlman/AP file photo Share Our state corrections department relegates ... Solitary confinement in Illinois must come out of the shadows. The Illinois House has already passed a bill (HB ...

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 ...

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.

Former Oak Park resident Heather Mack, who is serving a 26-year sentence in a West Virginia federal prison for conspiring to ...

Inmate Juan Randolfo Parrado was found unresponsive Thursday evening, and was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.