Illinois Department of Corrections

A group of transgender women has asked for an independent monitor of the Illinois Department of Corrections because the agency has not improved those…

A federal Judge says the state has been too slow in responding to the needs of inmates with hearing problems. The judge from the U.S. District Court’s…

Advocates have ideas being hashed out by a state task force.Attorney Alexis Mansfield said her clients have told her troubling stories of what happens…

A pair of laws recently enacted in Illinois were designed to take into account how children are affected by their parents' incarceration and to find ways…

A coalition of 26 advocacy organizations sent a letter to Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week asking him to order the Illinois Department of Corrections to…

The state of Illinois has a problem with its prison boot camps: too many empty beds.The Department of Corrections runs two military-style programs in…