Inmates are getting the chance to learn a trade to help them find a job when they get out.

Feeling grievously mistreated by circumstances and abused by prison guards, Illinois prison inmate Jarayan Gills took his ...

A man already serving life for first-degree murder waives a criminal homicide charge to court in the October killing of his ...

On Nov. 17, a Chicago man with 72 prior arrests and wearing a court-ordered ankle bracelet to monitor his whereabouts poured gasoline on a train passenger and set her on ...

The winter storm that pushed through the state Saturday and Sunday temporarily knocked out power at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman and Delta Correctional Facility in Greenwood, even as ...

According to the Facebook statement from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, investigators found a loaded firearm in Phillips’ ...

A micro SD card. A hidden camera. A Labrador named Boone. How Cook County’s first electronics detection dog is finding what ...

The Cook County sheriff says the man asked his neighbor to hangout but was turned down. He then allegedly returned to the ...

A man who broke into a Naperville home being visited by his former girlfriend and fought with its occupants gets 20 years in prison.