Randolph County Coroner Randy Dudenbostel said a 35-year-old inmate was pronounced dead at 10:36 p.m. Tuesday. An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday. “It’s being investigated as a suspicious death,” ...

CHESTER, Ill. (AP) — A southwestern Illinois prison with the state's worst inmate-to-staff ratio of all Illinois maximum-security lockups has had an 'alarming' number of assaults perhaps blamed on the ...

RANDOLPH COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - A staff member at Menard Correctional Center had to be revived with Narcan, according to internal documents from the Illinois Department of Corrections. State Senator ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) – Two guards and a chaplain were injured Tuesday in an Illinois prison attack that union officials said involved up to 15 inmates, the latest in a series of violent incidents at ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (WSIL) -- Union members employed at correctional facilities across Illinois are scheduled to picket over safety in the workplace on Thursday. American Federation of State, County and ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - Hundreds of corrections workers across the state of Illinois are waiting to see what happens next after they spent the day hosting “informational pickets” at Illinois ...

CHICAGO (AP) — It's been a week since Drew Peterson was sentenced to 38 years in prison for murdering his third wife, and already he is seeing the inside of his third prison. The Illinois Department ...

A former Plainfield Township landlord who was convicted of the 2023 hate crime murder of a Muslim child died from natural causes. On Wednesday, Randolph County Coroner Tracy Vallett said Joseph Czuba, ...

CHESTER — Weapons and other contraband were confiscated today at Menard Correctional Center during a tactical shakedown of cells. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council ...

SPRINGFIELD — Another inmate death is under investigation at the Menard Correctional Center. Randolph County Coroner Randy Dudenbostel said a 35-year-old inmate was pronounced dead at 10:36 p.m.