Stateville opened in 1925 and has an operational maximum capacity of more than 3,000 inmates, according to IDOC. It’s been home to some of Illinois’ most well-known convicted criminals, ...

Stateville prison is closing. Here’s how men incarcerated there will remember it. Living conditions inside the nearly 100-year-old prison are “horrible,” but the bonds forged between some ...

Much attention has been paid to malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary and the fraught ethical issues that the carceral studies raised. Stateville inmates were ...

The Stateville budget request reflects a $10.6 million reduction for salaries and the state’s contributions to Social Security, but a $100,000 increase for “commodities, ...

Stateville opened in 1925 and has an operational maximum capacity of more than 3,000 inmates, according to IDOC. It’s been home to some of Illinois’ most well-known convicted criminals ...

Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Ill. The state is planning to replace the prison because of its crumbling infrastructure. However, Stateville has some of the most robust educational ...

Stateville inmates with violent records wound up in medium-security prisons When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five ...

Workers worry about jobs with Illinois' Stateville Prison closing 02:15. CREST HILL, Ill. (CBS) -- The State of Illinois has started moving inmates out of Stateville Correctional Center— which ...

Aug. 30—Union workers planned to picket outside Stateville Correctional Center Thursday, Aug. 29, to amplify their concerns about how the planned closure and reconstruction of the maximum ...

When Illinois' century-old maximum-security Stateville prison closed last summer, four in five inmates were transferred to medium-security facilities despite violent backgrounds, data shows.