An Illinois Answers Project analysis revealed that 63 people who died in jails were missing from state data on in-custody ...

Winnebago County Jail received a 100% compliance rating during its annual Illinois Department of Corrections review.

The Illinois Department of Corrections is permanently closing the Du Quoin Impact Program facility, ending years of uncertainty about whether the longtime correctional site would reopen. IDOC ...

(The Center Square) – The Illinois Department of Corrections says it expects to save about $35.9 million in capital costs, $6.5 million in annual operating expenses and millions of additional savings ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The mother of one of the men killed inside the Bent County Correctional Facility nearly three months ago brought a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against ...

DU QUOIN, Ill. (Heartland News) - The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) will be phasing out its impact program facility in Du Quoin. According to IDOC, this move is part of ongoing efforts to ...

Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy whose fatal shooting of Sonya Massey inside her home became a flashpoint over police use of force, died Sunday while serving a 20-year prison sentence.

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ga. — A federal lawsuit accusing Georgia prison officers of failing to protect an inmate who was fatally stabbed at Baldwin State Prison is moving into a new phase as attorneys ...

IONIA, Mich. – An inmate was found dead in his cell at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in Ionia Wednesday night. Kevin Joseph Kelly, 36, was found dead in his two-person cell in the evening ...

Investigators are looking into the second homicide in a week at California State Prison, Sacramento in Folsom. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said state prison ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A warrant has been served against an Indiana Department of Corrections inmate now accused in a January homicide. Kim Williams Jr., 37, was being held at the Plainfield ...

An inmate died Tuesday after being attacked by another inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento, in Folsom, officials said. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said staff ...