U.S. District Judge James Sweeney sentenced Otha Don Watkins III, 43, of Cairo, Illinois to five years in federal prison ...

Burke's two-year sentence behind bars is set to end after serving less than ten months. Several sources with direct knowledge of his case tell NBC Chicago that Burke will be released from the Thomson ...

A former candidate for Evansville mayor and Vanderburgh County Commissioners is now serving time in federal prison.

The NBC 5 Investigates Team has learned that less than one year after ex-Ald. Ed Burke was sent to prison, he is preparing to ...

A federal judge on Friday concluded that the former Illinois House speaker lied while he testified at trial. The longest ...

Starting in the 1940s, researchers infected inmates at the Joliet-area prison with malaria to test the effectiveness of drugs to treat the illness as part of a U.S. military-funded effort to ...

CARBONDALE Following an incident in Carbondale on Tuesday evening where criminals defaced a federal building, ... (1-800-225-5324) and reference “Carbondale Illinois Federal Building.” ...

Raoul, names Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul as the defendant. The state has consistently defended the ban as a necessary public safety measure. The Seventh Circuit’s decision in this ...

Eunice Cho, senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s National Prison Project, said the Trump administration should cease the use of federal prisons to detain immigrants. “Holding people in extended ...

Chicago’s consent decree with the state of Illinois was approved in 2019 and remains in place. The DOJ moves last month have “no direct impact” on the Chicago decree, an ACLU of Illinois spokesperson ...

PHILADELPHIA — An Illinois employee of an Indiana masonry firm has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for his role in a federal bribery case over Amtrak’s renovation of its 30th Street Station in ...

A fight at a high-security federal prison in Beaumont left one inmate dead, sent two others to the hospital, and a fourth being treated for minor injuries.