Incarcerated students accepted their diplomas from Augustana College at a commencement inside East Moline Correctional Center ...

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) -- It was featured in movie classics such as "The Sting" and "The Blues Brothers," and now another major motion picture will film scenes at the former Joliet Correctional Center.

guards and wardens to show the history of the Joliet Correctional Center on Collins Street, the adjacent Women's Prison and Stateville. The exhibit shares its title with an 1856 novel by Charles ...

Visitors say they’ve seen unexplained movement on the prison grounds. But do ghost stories detract from the specter of a truly dark history? On a cool October night in 2018, Larry Arroyo was ...

Bernard McKinley spent 23 years an inmate at Stateville Correctional Center outside Joliet. He saw the deteriorating stairways, huge vertical cracks in the walls and ceiling enforcements rusted by ...

FILE - Security fences surround the Illinois Department of Corrections' Logan Correctional Center, Nov. 18, 2016, in Lincoln, Ill. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration has retained a ...

Besides opposition from activists, some residents there were upset at the notion of becoming a prison town. Thanas doesn’t expect that kind of opposition in Joliet, which has been home to the ...

Police identified Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton as the girlfriend of Romeo Nance. Police in Joliet, Illinois, arrested Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton, 21, who they identified as the girlfriend of ...

Things began settling down within a couple of hours as reinforcements from the Illinois State Police and tactical teams from the Pontiac Correctional Center and Joliet Correctional Center ...