A McLean County jury returned guilty verdicts Friday, convicting a man from Blue Island on three weapon charges.

A former wide receiver for the University of Texas Longhorns football team was arrested in Grayson County overnight Thursday.

Per the Grayson County jail records search, Cook was arrested by the Pottsboro Police Department for possession of less than two ounces of marijuana. This is his second arrest in less than two weeks, ...

A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of killing his girlfriend, according to the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office.

Imprisoned former Ald. Edward M. Burke's Burnham Committee gave the money to a fund for Justice Joy V. Cunningham days after ...

A Country Club Hills man is behind bars after sheriff’s deputies searched his home and reportedly uncovered a stash of illegal firearms, drugs, and nearly $900 in cash.

The current Erie County Corrections Advisory Board is being scrutinized by the County Legislature for its lack of transparency and failure to accomplish anything in recent years despite a promising ...

A former Hamilton County corrections officer will spend 9 months in prison after he was convicted of sexual battery against a female inmate.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Each year, about 2,475 prisoners return to Milwaukee County. This raises a critical question: Who do we want these ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Court records also indicate he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to commit murder-for-hire in the 2016 nonfatal shooting of another man in Detroit after he and two cohorts ...