The Champaign County Jail updated the way it documents, tracks and reports use of restraint chairs after an Illinois Answers ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

Justice Department attorney John Robinson said prison officials have “broad discretion” to decide where to place inmates. Moving the women to a men’s prison would jeopardize their safety and ...

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The CDC purged LGBTQ and race-related health data to comply with Trump's executive order against DEI, sparking public health ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi set the tone at the Justice Department within hours of being sworn in, issuing more than a dozen ...

The White House ordered the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing employees hired in the past two years, part of the ...

Correctional workers and Republican lawmakers have said exposure to synthetic cannabinoids in IDOC facilities has led to ...

A Melrose, Illinois, man on mandatory supervised release from the Illinois Department of Corrections was arrested Thursday by ...

It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated mental illness or substance abuse. A new law will help them get Medicaid.

JOLIET, Ill. (WTVO) — Will County State’s Attorney’s Office sentenced Tamica Neal, 45, to 1 year in prison for fatally stabbing a dog in 2024. On March 17, 2024, Crest Hill Officers were called to the ...

President Trump says he would deport American criminals to El Salvador "in a heartbeat" if it were legal. An ACLU attorney tells NPR that such an idea "would be blatantly unconstitutional." ...