The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is backing a plan to shutter Logan and construct a new 800-bed women’s prison ...

IFN Staff A Statesville woman was convicted of second-degree murder and felony child abuse on Friday in connection with the ...

The Logan Correctional Center will be relocated. This comes after over two years of discussion, and consistent pushback from ...

Gov. JB Pritzker endorsed the plan in 2024 to replace two aging, deteriorating prisons — Stateville Correctional Center near ...

Calling it an "ill-advised and devastating decision," the Illinois Department of Corrections informed area officials that Logan Correctional Center will be moving to Stateville. "Let’s be clear, this ...

Kenneth Iwamasa injected the "Friends" star with a fatal dose of the hallucinogenic drug ketamine in October 2023.

In the undated call obtained by PEOPLE, Mackenzie Shirilla discusses the realities of life behind bars in the Cuyahoga County Jail following her double-murder conviction Chris Spargo is a senior ...

Craggy Correctional Center in Asheville is scheduled to close in late summer 2026. The prison's 250 inmates will be transferred to other state prisons. The closure is attributed to severe and ...

Every morning about 3:30, Phillip Vance Smith wakes in his prison cell, sits up in bed and starts writing with pencil and paper while the other inmates sleep — a ritual performed in rare moments of ...

Kentucky DOC fired Capt. Adam Noles and Lt. Raymond Marzilli for use-of-force violations. Sgt. Lucas Stahl suspended three days for failing to report the Feb. 25, 2026 incident. Internal Affairs ...

LEXINGTON, N.C. — Days after walking out of prison for the first time in 46 years, Charles McNeair is adjusting to a world that looks very different from the one he left as a teenager. Opening a bank ...

Around 3:30 one morning this winter, officers stationed in the prison yard of South Carolina’s Turbeville Correctional Institution heard a propeller buzzing somewhere above the state prison. One ...