The city lease on the Joliet Correctional Center, and a state bill would transfer some of the land to the Forest Preserve ...

Joliet Patch previously reported on the Joliet police arrest of Manuel Cardenas. Now we have an update and details of his ...

Adam Ogle will resign as warden of York County Prison in November after more than four years. Deputy warden Joseph Johnston will step in as interim warden. His tenure was marked by several ...

Several Gadsden County schools were placed on lockdown as a precaution after a convict escaped. The escaped inmate, Cedric Butler, ran from a bailiff while being transported to jail. Butler was last ...

Charlie Javice, the founder of a startup company that sought to dramatically improve how students apply for financial aid, was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison for cheating JPMorgan ...

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Judith Resnik about her new book, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison ...

AUBURN, N.Y. — The New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolence Association said a guard was stabbed by an inmate convicted of murder at the Auburn Correctional Facility. NYSCOPBA said ...

Franklin County Sheriff Johnny Crocker has a two-step plan for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to be able to build a new prison somewhere in Arkansas: fire Joe Profiri and put Crocker and another elected ...

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the ...

A resident uses a tractor at the Northeast Regional Correctional Center near Saginaw in 2022. The work farm includes a greenhouse and meat processing facility.