We are disappointed but unsurprised to see the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board supporting Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s regressive call to repeal the Pretrial Fairness Act’s huma...

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.

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...

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Mail scanning has become a permanent policy in Illinois prisons, and it hinders real rehabilitation.

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

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

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...

The Illinois Department of Corrections confined inmates in “dungeon-like conditions” in solitary confinement and refused to allow them to exercise, causing chronic physical and psychological pain, a l...

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.

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

How heat threatens lives in America’s prisons

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...

We’re researching the Cook County judges running for another term in November for our judicial election guide. Have something to share? Let us know.

The switch to digitized mail for incarcerated people has had little impact on the drug exposures the policy sought to stop, according to new data from the Illinois Department of Corrections.