Illinois Department of Corrections

Hundreds of Menard Correctional Center employees and their supporters staged a rally alongside a busy street in Chester, highlighting what they described as perilous working conditions at the state’s largest maximum-security prison.

Weeks after two high-profile resignations at the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday appointed the first-ever executive director to help lead the beleaguered agency.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker defended the number of dying and disabled prisoners released under a landmark law that went into effect early last year at a news conference last week.

Anderson, who denied killing Jolaine Lanman and her son Kenneth, died Tuesday at the Pontiac Correctional Center in Pontiac, Illinois.

An independent expert who has monitored the mental health care was terminated reducing the transparency around an often failing system.

Sheriffs who are charged with operating county jails around the state say IDOC’s decision puts more strain on county resources and personnel.

When Ralph Gray transferred from one prison in Illinois to another, he didn’t know the move would mean sacrificing access to an education. Gray guessed he…

Before being released from prison, Melvin Hill Jr. was doing everything in his power to secure a sustainable job that would allow him to fulfill his…

A federal judge has ordered Illinois state prisons to immediately overhaul their policies for providing medical care to transgender inmates. Currently,…

Lawyers are asking a federal judge to hold the state of Illinois in contempt over the way it deals with mental illness in prisons.