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I cannot imagine how much sadness and depression this one Illinois place contained when it was active. Urban explorers shared one last look inside a former women's prison in Illinois that sat vacant for 12 years and has now been destroyed forever.

A new report is coming out about how the inmates at prisons in Missouri are "fed up" with the food they are being served. What exactly are they frustrated over, and should the state make changes to help them?

A 25-year-old inmate who escaped from the Iowa State Penitentiary Sunday morning was recaptured several hours later in Illinois.

A new report by a court-approved medical panel sharply criticizes health care at Illinois prisons, though the state Department of Corrections disputes many of its conclusions. It was filed in Chicago federal court late Tuesday night in a class-action suit against the agency that oversees 49,000 inmates at 25 prison facilities.

Two federal judges may visit a southern Illinois prison as they work on a class-action lawsuit that inmates brought about overcrowding, according to court documents.

UPDATE:      Illinois State Police on Wednesday morning captured an inmate who escaped from a southern Illinois prison on Tuesday afternoon.

Legislation cracking down on Illinois gun crime could add to the state's prison crowding and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

The former president of a small-town central Illinois bank was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for embezzlement.

(QUINCY)—A Quincy man gets a 12 year prison sentence following a guilty plea to methamphetamine related charges. 45 year old Richard Huddleston was sentenced by Judge William Mays following a guilty plea to charges of manufacturing and selling meth...

Hours after he was released from a federal prison, former Illinois Governor George Ryan was back home in Kankakee, surrounded by his grandchildren.