More than 30,000 pages of jail records reveal thousands of fires, escapes and uses of force across Illinois, while at least 63 custody deaths were missing from ...

This story was originally published by the Illinois Answers Project. A man being held in Sangamon County Jail in the fall of 2024 mixed in with a group getting processed for release and walked out in ...

Illinois county jails are required to report extraordinary or unusual occurrences—including deaths, escapes, riots and forced ...

A former employee at the Federal Correctional Institute in Thomson is sentenced for sexually abusing two inmates.

A federal jury in Rockford convicted 42-year-old Danny L. Spyker of two counts of knowingly engaging in sexual acts with ...

Danny L. Spyker worked as a corrections officer and cook supervisor when he "knowingly engaged in sexual acts" with two ...

Danny Spyker, 42, has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison after he was found guilty of sexually abusing two inmates, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern ...

Governor JB Pritzker signed House Bill 1810 into law on August 7, 2026. The measure is titled the Equitable Access to ...

A deaf inmate has filed a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections, claiming that the agency is failing to provide him and other deaf people with equal access to its telephone ...

KUNA — An Idaho State Correctional Center inmate was assaulted and died last week, making him at least the eighth Idaho Department of Correction resident to die in 2026. The 66-year-old man, who was ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Ada County Coroner's Office has identified an inmate who died following an apparent assault last week at the Idaho State Correctional Center (ISCC) in Kuna. Authorities on Wednesday ...

(The Center Square) – A deaf inmate has filed a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Department of Corrections, claiming that the agency is failing to provide him and other deaf people with equal ...