The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside ...

An upstate prison was still locked down Thursday after guards retook control of three dorms following an inmate uprising ...

SKIPPACK — An inmate on death row at the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix was found unresponsive in his cell and ...

When Illinois shuttered the century-old maximum security facility last year, nearly four of every five inmates went to less-secure sites.

The sound of cell doors slamming, and a prison official on the loudspeaker: “Attention, inmates: visits will start soon.” The Gist: Visits will indeed start soon, with separate windows of time ...

Two more men died at the Shelby County Jail this week, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said Friday night. The deaths make ...

Another inmate at the Shelby County Jail, oftentimes referred to as 201 Poplar, died at the hospital after being found ...

Two inmates at the county jail at 201 Poplar have died in the past two days, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said. The ...

A 24-year-old Clinton County Jail inmate has been ordered to participate in The Salvation Army program and was given probation after he pleaded guilty to flooding the jail, according to court ...

Inmate Tam Le, 53, was found unresponsive in his cell on Tuesday, according to Joseph Terra, superintendent of SCI-Phoenix. Prison staff and medical personnel immediately responded and provided ...