These Bureau of Prisons programs teach prisoners about life, giving back and obeying the rules. Dog training programs and ...

Imprisoned former Ald. Edward Burke has become the latest Chicago Democrat to seek clemency from someone who, at first blush, ...

Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, who was convicted in a federal bribery case, has requested his sentence be commuted. If his ...

Ed Burke, 81, was found guilty of federal racketeering and bribery charges in 2023 and is serving a two-year prison sentence. The typical commutation process could take months or years, but President ...

The federal civil rights complaints alleged First Amendment violations and retaliation. The Department of Corrections did not ...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons ... The BOP closed the notorious SMU at Thomson penitentiary in Illinois, after frequent reports ...

Among them: a former Chicago police officer; an ex-Illinois National Guard soldier ... was driving from Chicago to the downstate Thomson federal prison in anticipation of his brother’s release ...

Dick Durbin sent a letter to the Office of Personal Management to approve a pay raise for employees at Thomson Prison ... swiftly to approve the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) recently ...