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Petition Filed Seeking to Transfer the Last 12 Men Out of the Aging Stateville Prison
Disability rights group Equip for Equality filed a motion Thursday for a preliminary injunction to immediately transfer the ...
Mother of 11-year-old boy fatally stabbed while protecting her in Edgewater home files lawsuit
Laterria Smith claims the state ignored the danger posed by her ex-boyfriend, who is charged in the 2024 attack, and released ...
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Illinois Pitches Two New Prisons as a Way to Modernize and Address Aging Facilities. Some Advocates Aren’t Sold
Illinois’ prison population continues to shrink, with facilities now having a 26% vacancy rate, leading some of those inside ...
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Pre-trial release denied for wanted felon who led police on high-speed pursuit that ended in crash near Antioch
A judge denied pre-trial release to a convicted felon, who was just released from prison, after a police pursuit from Kenosha ...
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2 felons arrested after high-speed chase that ended in crash with 4 hospitalized near Antioch
Two wanted felons were arrested after a police pursuit from Kenosha County that ended with them crashing into another vehicle ...
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IDOC sued over alleged mistreatment of prisoners with disabilities at Stateville
A new lawsuit alleges the Illinois Department of Corrections violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by leaving almost two dozen men with disabilities behind when it shut down Stateville ...
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Stateville inmates with violent records wound up in medium-security prisons
Erin Hooley / AP Share Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison was closed last summer, 278 were convicted of murder, and 100 more are serving ...
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Data shows inmates with violent records from Stateville Correctional Center sent to medium-security sites
Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent ...
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Illinois data shows inmates with violent records from shuttered prison sent to medium-security sites
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving ...
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Inmates with violent records from shuttered prison are being sent to medium-security sites
SPRINGFIELD — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for ...