The review, announced this week by Corrections Director Mike Reese, brings Falcon’s state contracts to $800,000.

Out of the gate in his second term, President Donald Trump has delivered a raft of executive orders and policy edicts that ...

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a former U.S. attorney said.

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

The review comes after a series of in-custody deaths, an investigation into an alleged smuggling ring, and a staffing crisis across the system.

R. Kelly is currently serving 30 years in prison for sex trafficking, concurrent with 20 years for child pornography, and he ...

A former Chicago Public Schools gym teacher has been sentenced to prison for grooming and sexually abusing three boys under the age of 13.

Several Quaker groups filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security over Trump’s decision to end ICE’s ...

The vast majority of the ideas won’t make it to the desk of Gov. J.B. Pritzker or become law, but the list of proposals ...

Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS ... in any immigration enforcement against people incarcerated in the state prison system. Under the 2017 Trust Act, law enforcement in Illinois, including ...