Incarcerated students inside Sheridan Correctional Center share their thoughts about higher education, rehabilitation and ...

A 21-year-old was found guilty of attempted murder this week after a 6-day trial in connection to a shooting incident which took place in Carbondale in ...

A history of a "school for wayward girls" reveals issues with youth justice and juvenile detention centers in Illinois.

A judge sentenced Jon Miller, of Owatonna, Minnesota, to life in prison for the 1974 killing of Mary K. Schlais in western ...

WBEZ Chicago and public radio stations throughout Illinois are teaming up once again to produce a special radio broadcast for ...

Far too many people fail to reenter society after prison because they lack a safe place to sleep and an address to put on an ...

District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announced a former Penn Forest Township auditor pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material and received a significant state prison ...

As of his 74 th birthday on June 5, 2024, Joel Cross, BBA ’72, had fitness walked for 1,624 consecutive days—nearly four and a half years—averaging 11 miles per day. Cross can often be found on the ...

BOWLING GREEN, OH – The Colonel Crawford Eagles’ impressive season came to a close one game shy of a state title appearance, as they fell to the Maria Stein Marion Local Flyers at Bowling Green State ...

New York state's prison system is reeling after a three-week unsanctioned strike by corrections officers. That ended about a week ago, and on Monday, Governor Kathy Hochul fired 2,000 prison ...