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.

In a Joliet house on Hickory Street back in ... Experts told the I-Team that the Western Illinois Correctional Center was notorious for safety concerns. "Western has long been a facility that ...

A second Joliet man, Ryan Gooch, 19, has been arrested in connection with a shooting last month on Youngs Avenue. JOLIET, Ill ...

Pritzker and the Illinois Department ... The prison is located just north of Joliet in Crest Hill. The state is also planning to replace Logan Correctional Center in downstate Lincoln, but that ...

Geiler's previous crimes happened nowhere near Joliet. His 2016, 2017 and 2021 convictions that landed him in prison at the Dixon Correctional Center were ... to the Illinois Department of ...

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...