New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State ...

Left unplugged, some of these wells leak toxic chemicals hundreds of feet below the surface, potentially contaminating ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new initiative into law enabling Illinois residents who’ve served sentences for nonviolent offenses ...

An investigation has revealed that many of these deaths — whether the result of withdrawal, chronic medical conditions or ...

A prosecutor has told a jury that a prison guard should be convicted of manslaughter for failing to intervene in the brutal ...

Providing additional funding and staff for Illinois jails to handle inmates' medical needs has been a challenge at the state ...

From delayed hospital trips to limited nutrition, former detainees describe gaps in pregnancy care inside Illinois county ...

Lawyers for former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters will try to convince a state appeals court to overturn her conviction ...

Since 2013, the prison abolition collective has processed mail from largely LGBTQ people incarcerated in Illinois. How those materials are delivered has recently changed.

Lawmakers OK Department of Corrections' permanent rules that allow it to scan and digitize mail of those in custody.