After nearly a century in operation, this month marks the end for one of Illinois’ most notorious prisons: Stateville Correctional Center, just outside of Joliet. At the same time, its proximity ...

Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional Center amid a lawsuit over the aging prison’s deteriorating condition. But as state lawmakers negotiate the ...

In March, Governor JB Pritzker's administration proposed to tear down both Stateville in Crest Hill and the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln in an effort to "address critical infrastructure ...

CHICAGO — Dozens of men have begun to be transferred out of Stateville Correctional Center just north of Joliet as debates continue over the condition of the century-old prison and Gov.

The state is on track to have moved all but a few inmates out of Stateville Correctional Center by a court-ordered deadline Monday, marking the end of an era for the dilapidated century-old ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered Illinois prison officials to move most of the people incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center to other prisons around the state by Sept. 30 after civil ...

Aug. 30—Union workers planned to picket outside Stateville Correctional Center Thursday, Aug. 29, to amplify their concerns about how the planned closure and reconstruction of the maximum ...

Bernard McKinley spent 23 years an inmate at Stateville Correctional Center outside Joliet. He saw the deteriorating stairways, huge vertical cracks in the walls and ceiling enforcements rusted by ...

CREST HILL — Dozens of men have begun to be transferred out of Stateville Correctional Center just north of Joliet as debates continue over the condition of the century-old prison and Gov.