Rock Island County officials say they are helping U.S. Marshals search for Johnell Lamont Smith III, an inmate who escaped ...

A man, who was incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester for 12 years, claims that the prison leadership ...

In the 20,000 pages of documents released by a congressional committee, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Thomas ...

The Tails of Redemption program in Illinois pairs shelter dogs with local inmates in hopes of transforming both their lives ...

Illinois Department of Corrections officials are promising to have a permanent rule on electronic mail scanning drafted by ...

Pilot programs in Kankakee and McHenry counties provide mental health care to defendants, from smaller jails, who have deemed ...

A man accused of setting a 26-year-old woman on fire aboard a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train was charged with domestic ...

Three members of the Christian County Sheriff’s Office have been recognized for their heroic efforts in preventing inmate ...

The former Illinois sheriff’s deputy on trial in the 2024 death of Sonya Massey testified Monday that he did not use his stun gun during the fatal encounter because he wasn't sure if it would work ...

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a had a small, "extremely deformed" penis that looked like a lemon, one of his alleged ...

A 44-year-old man who died after he was found unresponsive in his San Diego Central Jail cell earlier this week was identified Thursday.