The Oregon Department of Corrections plans to pay an outside consultant an estimated $550,000 over the next year to assess ...

Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, who was convicted in a federal bribery case, has requested his sentence be commuted. If his petition is granted, that would allow him to be released from prison sooner.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 30, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

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