Lockdowns can be indistinguishable from solitary confinement-like conditions, with those incarcerated given little yard time ...

The state of Illinois will pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging correctional officers did nothing to stop the murder of an inmate at the Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Ill.

Western is a close second to state-leading Menard Correctional Center in the number of current COVID-19 cases. As of Monday, 605 prisoners at maximum-security Menard are infected with COVID.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Department of Corrections officials have eased restrictions at the state's largest prison. The 3,500 inmates at Menard Correctional Center near Chester had been ...

The conspiracy revolved around $1.3 million paid by ComEd to allies of then-Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan to curry favor with the once-powerful politician who now faces prison time.

CHESTER, ILL. • A shakedown of cells at a prison in Southern Illinois turned up weapons and other contraband and set off another round of warnings over the potential impact of closing some of ...

MENARD, Ill. (WLS) -- A McHenry County man serving a 26-year prison sentence for murder is now a free man. Mario Casciaro walked out of Menard Correctional Center in downstate Illinois on ...

Wings has been transferred to the prison in Pontiac. He is serving a 25-year sentence for armed robbery and is scheduled for release in 2023.

SPRINGFIELD — Inmates at a maximum-security prison in southern Illinois reported concern about “aggressive cellmates’’ shortly before a string of murders at the penitentiary, according to ...