For years, Lillian Bell says she hardly ever missed a Sunday visiting her son Michael in prison at Stateville Correctional Center. The 70-year-old mother of three was grateful when Michael was ...
The state is on track to have moved all but a few inmates out of Stateville Correctional Center by a court-ordered deadline Monday, marking the end of an era for the dilapidated century-old facility ...
Family members of a man incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center who died during a heat wave there are suing the state’s prison system in federal court. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed ...
Illinois data shows inmates with violent records from shuttered prison sent to medium-security sites
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — 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 time for ...
CHICAGO — The family of a man who died while in custody at Stateville Correctional Center during an early summer heat wave sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, a prison health care provider ...
CREST HILL, Ill. (WLS) -- An inmate at Stateville prison in Crest Hill is being treated for Legionnaires' disease, a severe form of pneumonia. The inmate is now at a hospital outside of the prison. No ...
June 11, 2025—The next time your doctor suggests that you take a genetic test before prescribing a drug, you can thank a group of Black inmates imprisoned outside Chicago 75 years ago. The story ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — When film star ...
More than 2,000 people traveled to the outskirts of Joliet on Dec. 6, 1925, for the dedication of the new Illinois state penitentiary at Stateville. Legislators were greeted with a luncheon at what ...
A federal judge this summer ordered state prison officials to move most people incarcerated at Stateville by Sept. 30, after civil rights lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of inmates arguing ...
A federal judge this summer ordered state prison officials to move most people incarcerated at Stateville by Sept. 30, after civil rights lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of inmates arguing ...
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