A new proposal in Springfield could allow people who were convicted of felonies while 21 or younger to petition for a new ...

A proposed law in Illinois would automate record-sealing and make it easier for people with nonviolent records to land work.

“They didn’t have to do what they did to me — put me in prison for the rest of my life and just throw me away like that,” he said. The Illinois Department of Corrections lists Schoffner as serving ...

GREENFIELD — Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced Feb. 21 that Greenfield resident Gustavo Espinoza Villalobos, 33, has been sentenced to 25-years-to-life in state prison by Superior ...

Subjected to arbitrary arrests and forced labor, sterilizations to torture, more than one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other minorities are estimated to have been locked up in so-called ...

The Bureau of Prisons is pushing ahead with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities corresponding to their sex at birth. The moves ...

Greenfield CUSD 10 is excited to announce the launch of a comprehensive Strategic Planning Process aimed at defining a three- to five-year roadmap for the district's future. This initiative will ...

Legislation in the Illinois statehouse could open up state financial aid to college students in prison. Charlotte West/Open Campus Share Jose Vidaurri was serving more than 20 years in prison when ...

Efforts to digitize mail into Illinois prisons mirror those in prison systems across the country. Credit: Rhodi Lopez / Unsplash Illinois lawmakers and prison guards are ramping up efforts to ban ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are ...