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 ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered Illinois prison officials to move most of the people incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center to other prisons around the state by Sept. 30 after civil rights ...

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 ...

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 ...

CREST HILL, Ill. (CBS) -- The State of Illinois has started moving inmates out of Stateville Correctional Center—which is set to close over concerns about poor living conditions there. But plans to ...

A federal lawsuit has been filed against the Illinois Department of Corrections, alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit claims IDOC left 21 men with disabilities in ...

The University’s budget cuts to the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture will end the educational initiative ...

SPRINGFIELD — 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 other ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — When film star James Stewart went on location in 1948 at Stateville prison's notorious roundhouse while portraying a Chicago newspaper reporter whose work freed a wrongly convicted ...

CHICAGO — Dozens of men have begun to be transferred out of Stateville Correctional Center just north of Joliet as debates continue over the condition of the century-old prison and Gov. JB Pritzker’s ...