CBS News contributor David Begnaud shows how Willette Benford, who spent 24 years in prison, is working with Illinois first ...

A Chicago man who spent nearly three decades in prison after being convicted of murder as a teenager was fully exonerated by ...

Illinois man sentenced to 12.5 years for DUI crash that killed a 4-year-old girl while under the influence of cannabis.

NBC 5 investigates the epilogue of a story 33 years in the making: the 1992 New Year's murder of a teenager and his mother's ...

Brittany Hall, a former correctional officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, has been indicted on five counts of sexual abuse charges after allegedly abusing four inmates while ...

A female correctional officer was accused of sexually abusing four women who were inmates at a downtown correctional center ...

CHICAGO - A Chicago correctional officer is accused of sexually abusing four female inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

Efforts to digitize mail into Illinois prisons mirror those in prison systems across the country. Credit: Rhodi Lopez / Unsplash Illinois lawmakers and prison guards are ramping up efforts to ban ...

Teaching Fellow Alex Negron leads a class at Sheridan Correctional Center on Feb. 11. Legislation in the Illinois statehouse could open up state financial aid to college students in prison.

An Illinois man may avoid prison for hitting a car and shooting at the fleeing driver in November 2019. Ralph Bevineau, 30, of Joliet, pleaded guilty Wednesday to robbery, a Level 5 felony ...