Advocates said it’s time to recognize the value of second chances, and for parole, or “earned reentry,” to be reinstated. That would allow people to be released before the completion of their sentence...

Mouse Arts and Letters Club will focus on historical stories in their film about this Chicago street.

His abiding obsessions were taxes and weapons. He thought taxes should be cut always and everywhere, except for poor people, and he thought America should build as many weapons as possible. The more w...

A new lawsuit filed against the Illinois Department of Corrections alleges incarcerated deaf people do not have equal access to phone calls.

Incarcerated Illinoisans admitted to solitary confinement appear to no longer have access to outside communication, legal materials and educational programming through tablets, according to advocates.

Incarcerated Illinoisans admitted to solitary confinement appear to no longer have access to outside communication, legal materials and educational programming through tablets, according to advocates.

Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusu...

In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...

The men declared the strike from their restrictive housing, or solitary confinement, cells on Monday, alleging a lack of mental health treatment and out-of-cell time at the prison in the southeast reg...

A recent report from the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice says Cook County judges often ordered accused people to be detained while awaiting trial despite, by the court’s own assessments, being a...

Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths.

One year of employee discipline data, obtained by WTTW News, reveals more than 700 cases of misbehavior across Chicago Public Schools. Case outcomes ranged from verbal warnings and written reprimands ...

At 7 AM on a Saturday in September 2025, I participated in a mass-casualty simulation drill held in the firefighter training area of O’Hare International Airport.

California officials dial back the minor reforms they've made to isolation in prison, four years after Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation to rein in solitary confinement.

Three men filed a lawsuit Monday against administrators at the Illinois Department of Corrections and Menard Correctional Center, alleging that they inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on the plain...

Film scholar Agata Zborowska’s “Not-So-Ordinary” project archives and restores amateur films from the city’s Polish immigrant community.

This bill would expand on prior laws and court rulings that have increasingly required judges to take defendants’ youth into account.

Logan Correctional Center, the largest women’s prison in Illinois, will be rebuilt with an 800-bed capacity about 140 miles north of its current location. As of this spring, Logan housed around 1,200 ...

Palestinian olive oil importers contend with drought, tariffs, and settler violence to bring their product to Chicago.

The foie gras wars at Lincoln Park restaurant Galit have reached a stalemate.

This bill would expand on prior laws and court rulings that have increasingly required judges to take defendants’ youth into account.

This bill would expand on prior laws and court rulings that have increasingly required judges to take defendants’ youth into account.

People in Illinois lost more than $7.7 billion gambling last year.  As lawmakers increasingly bet on gambling to pay the state’s bills, they have only spare change to treat compulsive gamblers

Illinois makes up about 15% of wrongful conviction cases nationwide, according to Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, the author behind “Crime Fictions: How Racist Lies Built a System of Mass Wrongful Convicti...

Albums recorded in Midwest jails and prisons that will be spun at the gallery Walls Turned Sideways on June 12. After the live listening event, a group discussion will allow audience members to debrie...

Regulars recount reading, drawing, and fighting in Chicago's beloved library

Pennsylvania courts allow attorneys to argue against their convicted clients’ bid for justice. It has resulted in people spending years or decades in prison before being freed based on issues lawyers ...