The second-oldest prison in Illinois ... put on display in the prison yard when the facility was decommissioned. A plaque next to the cell calls Joliet the “last of the Illinois medieval ...

Visitors say they’ve seen unexplained movement on the prison grounds. But do ghost stories detract from the specter of a ...

JOLIET, Ill. — A man who works for the Illinois Department of Corrections ... and took him into custody at Stateville Correctional Center, where he is employed, on Oct. 11.

Illinois officials on Friday announced their impending search for a firm to manage the planning and construction of two ...

at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center. Richard Speck, center, is brought to the Joliet prison Diagnostic Center for processing after being given the death sentence at his trial ...

the Illinois Department of Corrections has been transferring hundreds of Stateville inmates to prisons around Illinois, leaving the storied maximum security facility in Crest Hill, near Joliet, almost ...

Detectives learned that the messaging on social media took place over a span of several months and that Arndt was an Illinois ... Correctional Center in Crest Hill. He was driven to the Joliet ...

Supplanting the deteriorated Logan Correctional Center in central Illinois is part of the proposal ... no longer has access post-transfer. The Joliet Democrat said she has asked repeatedly ...

(The Center Square ... Rachel Ventura, D-Joliet, said the Illinois Department of Corrections did not have a solid plan. “If it’s just a speed thing, that’s not what I consider a ...

CHICAGO — 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 ...