Last year, more people in Illinois were sent to prison for possessing drugs than were sent for selling drugs....
AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 06.16.2009 | Chicago
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Tamms Correctional Center's first warden made no apologies for christening the tough southwest Illinois prison a home for a "very un...
AP | Posted 06.14.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn turned Thursday to the assistant director of Ohio's prison system to run the Illinois Department of Correctio...
Chicago Tribune | Gary Marx | Posted 06.05.2009 | Chicago
Joshua Daczewitz was a first-time inmate at a minimum-security prison when he tested positive for cocaine. So corrections officials transferred the pu...
Quad-City Times | Kurt Erickson | Posted 05.25.2009 | Chicago
Hoping to combat rising medical costs, Illinois prison officials have quietly begun investigating a new way to treat inmates....
Paula Wolff | Posted 05.17.2009 | Chicago
A citizens' group has been appointed to find places to cut the budget. One of the first places they should look is the Department of Corrections, which spends a shocking $1.4 billion each year to lock up 45,000 people.
Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Chicago