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.

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 ...

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

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