When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) announced plans Friday morning to tear down and rebuild Stateville ... The prison is located just north of Joliet in Crest Hill.

Now, almost three decades after his arrest, a judge will decide whether to release Robert Johnson later this month.

T he 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 and ...

Professor Jennifer Lackey has offered courses on ethics and mass incarceration at an Illinois maximum-security ... mass incarceration — at Stateville Correctional Center, a state prison near Joliet, ...