Puiszis disputed that the Joliet facility resembles a prison, saying that the state spent several million dollars to renovate the building, there are no armed guards and ice cream socials are held ...

He was sent to Joliet in recent months from the more modern Illinois River Correctional Center in Canton, a medium-security prison that opened in 1989.

A raging fire at the shuttered Joliet Correctional Center on Monday has renewed questions about what should be done with the site.

Cells at Illinois prison intake facility in Joliet infested with vermin, lawsuit says “Mice run in and out of cells all night long,” the suit says. “Cockroaches crawl up the walls, crawl ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A former youth prison in Joliet has been transformed into a new treatment center for mentally ill inmates. The state of Illinois settled a lawsuit dealing with the treatment of ...

The old Joliet prison, which was originally known as the Illinois Correctional Facility, stopped holding inmates in 2002. It has been closed ever since.

A recently filed plaintiff’s motion is seeking to trigger an immediate shutdown of Stateville Correctional Center in Chicago’s southwest suburbs, advocating for inmates to be moved to other ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is resuming in-person visitation at its correctional facilities statewide that were halted because of the pandemic. Visitations will start at Lincoln ...

A temporary exhibit at the Joliet Area Historical Museum uses photographs and artifacts from former prisoners, guards and wardens to show the history of the Joliet Correctional Center on Collins ...

Prisoners at an Illinois Department of Corrections facility in Joliet suffer through nightmare living conditions, with rat-infested cells, rotten food and raw sewage overflowing into common areas ...