James Soto, a former inmate at Stateville Correctional Center, addresses the state Commission ... and Conference Center on June 11, 2024, in Joliet. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) James Soto ...

After nearly a century in operation, this month marks the end for one of Illinois’ most notorious prisons: Stateville Correctional Center, just outside of Joliet. At the same time, its proximity ...

near Joliet, almost deserted. A federal judge this summer ordered state prison officials to move most people incarcerated at Stateville by Sept. 30, after civil rights lawyers filed a lawsuit on ...

According to Joliet news radio station ... that attorneys representing the more than 400 inmates at Stateville Correctional Center in a class action lawsuit had filed a motion seeking their ...

Just north of Joliet, Stateville Correctional Center sits quiet and mostly empty, surrounded by grass and trees. Nearly everyone incarcerated inside the 99-year-old prison was abruptly moved out ...

CREST HILL — Dozens of men have begun to be transferred out of Stateville Correctional Center just north of Joliet as debates continue over the condition of the century-old prison and Gov.

JOLIET — The Joliet Police Department issued a press release on Wednesday announcing that 45-year-old Joliet resident Robert Arndt, who works as the Stateville Correctional Center's food ...