1924: Stateville prison in Joliet was dedicated. More than 2,000 people traveled to see what was then known as the world’s ...
June 11, 2025—The next time your doctor suggests that you take a genetic test before prescribing a drug, you can thank a group of Black inmates imprisoned outside Chicago 75 years ago. The story ...
Much has been said and written over the years about controversial malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois’ Stateville Penitentiary starting in the 1940s. But at least one part of that story ...
A federal judge this summer ordered state prison officials to move most people incarcerated at Stateville by Sept. 30, after civil rights lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of inmates arguing ...
SPRINGFIELD — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other ...
Much has been said and written over the years about controversial malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois’ Stateville Penitentiary starting in the 1940s. But at least one part of that story ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time ...