SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A prison seminary program is one of the first priorities for the new head of South Dakota’s state corrections system. South Dakota Department of Corrections Secretary Nick ...

A panel of current and former incarcerated individuals, family members, a legal expert, a student filmmaker and a ...

A Cook County judge vacated Antonio Porter’s conviction and ordered a new trial, based in part on a police officer’s history.

Citing the recent “executions” of two U.S. citizens by immigration agents in Minneapolis, a lawyer for a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent in October asked a judge to allow bodycam footage ...

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 ...

Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy, will be sentenced on Thursday for the 2024 death of Sonya Massey, a Black ...

Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2024 death of Sonya Massey, after she called 911 looking for help. NBC News’ Shaquille Brewster reports on ...

The Mud Theatre Project and Prisoncast! teamed up to produce an audio version of an award-winning play. Then we broadcast it ...

A Chicago man was sentenced to 20 years in prison last week for invading a home in Naperville while on probation.

A former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy found guilty of second-degree murder for shooting Sonya Massey has been sentenced ...

JACKSONVILLE Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced that a South Jacksonville, Illinois man pleaded guilty to ...

A U.S. district judge in southern Illinois sentenced a west Kentucky man to 15 years in federal prison for possessing more ...