As 2024 comes to a close, we're looking back at the some of the biggest stories that Patch has covered so far this year in ...

Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life ...

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

Workers at Starbucks stores plan to go on a five-day strike starting Friday to protest lack of progress in contract ...

A South Side man with a long criminal record as a conman, thief and scammer was sentenced to 14 years in prison in connection to two very different felony cases.

Sam Cirrincione of South Barrington is expected to be discharged from Stateville Correction Center and paroled before ...

Some things are better off from a distance; the closer you get to them, the scarier they become. One of those things is prison. We love watching documentaries about them, and we dig shows that revolve ...

A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture after being arrested in July for visa fraud ...

(WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) announced the inmate, who escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary, has been captured. According to MDOC ...

Protesters in prison for environmental direct action are sounding the alarm on the medical negligence faced by incarcerated people across the UK. Activists serving sentences or on remand in relation ...

Syrians looking for information on people who disappeared under the former regime pick through documents at the infamous Sednaya prison near Damascus on Tuesday. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The ...