The policy change would mean that prosecutors could not agree to plea deals that do not include a prison sentence in any ...

ICE has not released details about Chicago arrests this week, leaving Dr. Phil McGraw’s video of Sai Pavuluri’s detention as ...

CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has directed prosecutors to seek prison sentences in every felony ...

The Mud Theatre Project, a nonprofit founded by a recently exonerated man, collaborated with Restore Justice to produce the ...

Melissa Calusinski has been behind bars in Illinois for 16 years in a case plagued by allegations of evidence manipulation, ...

To reduce the number of formerly incarcerated citizens returning to prison, some communities are turning to restorative justice — a practice promoting accountability and healing for all parties ...

It’s a complicated system that makes it difficult to track how many people in Illinois and more specifically the Chicago area have had their offenses forgiven (pardoned) or have been released from ...

A civil liberties group is concerned that state Sen. Terri Bryant is encouraging prison workers to circumvent the state’s ...

A Chicago real estate scammer was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison for orchestrating a reverse mortgage and home repair scheme that defrauded over 100 elderly property owners.