“Since Stateville Correctional Center had the worst physical living conditions of any facility in the state, we can’t help but to experience some better conditions,” Joseph Dole, who was ...

For years, Lillian Bell says she hardly ever missed a Sunday visiting her son Michael in prison at Stateville Correctional Center. The 70-year-old mother of three was grateful when Michael was ...

6, 1924, for the dedication of the new Illinois state penitentiary at Stateville. Legislators were greeted with a luncheon at what was then known as the world’s most modern prison. Though not ...

T he family of a man who died while in custody at Stateville Correctional Center during an early summer heat wave sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, a prison health care provider and ...

A Dixon man has been sentenced to up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to choking a woman this summer to the ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Despite the hefty sentence, Sam Cirrincione of South Barrington is expected to be paroled from Stateville Correctional Center before Christmas. That’s thanks to Cirrincione serving over two ...