For years, Lillian Bell says she hardly ever missed a Sunday visiting her son Michael in prison at Stateville Correctional Center. The 70-year-old mother of three was grateful when Michael was ...
Family members of a man incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center who died during a heat wave there are suing the state’s prison system in federal court. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed ...
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. JB Pritzker’s ...
Illinois data shows inmates with violent records from shuttered prison sent to medium-security sites
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for ...
Asthma and heat stress were the cause of death for a man who collapsed while incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center during a string of hot days in June, according to the Will County coroner’s ...
"It’s that sense of community that has been lost, and that we’re losing in this moment,” professor Alice Kim tells Reset. Stateville Correctional Center must relocate the majority of its population by ...
A historic but dilapidated Illinois prison will close while replacement is built, despite objections
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — When film star James Stewart went on location in 1948 at Stateville prison's notorious roundhouse while portraying a Chicago newspaper reporter whose work freed a wrongly convicted ...
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