CHICAGO — A state legislative oversight committee Friday permitted the Illinois Department of Corrections to formally adopt ...

LAKE FOREST, IL – An Illinois physician, Dr. Krishnaswami Sriram of Lake Forest, has been sentenced to 34 months in prison after being convicted of health care fraud and for concealing assets and ...

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December means Christmas in the doggy day room at Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’ largest state prison for women. On a recent visit, there were dogs dressed in holiday sweaters or reindeer ...

Under long-time federal law marijuana had been in the same class as heroin and LSD, but thanks to a decision by President Donald Trump, it will be grouped with drugs like Tylenol and steroids.

ROCKFORD, Ill. — A man who stabbed his inmate to death while at an Illinois prison has been given his sentence. In November 2020, Houston Clyde, then 23, stabbed his cellmate to death while the pair ...

Johnell Smith III, who fled the custody of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice on Nov. 12, and initially refused to waive extradition to Illinois, is now being housed in Illinois' Stateville ...

(TNS) — Incarcerated individuals in Illinois could start earning money behind bars if a newly proposed bill were to pass. Illinois Democratic Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet, who represents the 5th District ...

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For far too long, Illinois politicians have been playing politics with people’s lives in the criminal legal system. (I do not call it the criminal justice system because there is no justice in it.).