The lawsuit names two brothers, Robert and Jordan Knight, as the security guards who hit “several closed-fist punches” to Elliot's head, “multiple knee strikes” to Elliot's body and “several elbow ...

Federal lawsuit alleges Racine County and youth center violated Anthony Lamar Elliott Jr.'s eighth amendment rights by using excessive force.

The family of Charles Adair — a man who investigators say was killed by a sheriff’s deputy in the Wyandotte County jail last ...

Illinois abolished cash bail and drove down the population at the Cook County jail. Under the county’s top prosecutor, it’s ...

Kim Foxx’s office granted certificates of innocence to dozens of men convicted of murder, with the city of Chicago already ...

A Lincoln man has been cited for his alleged involvement in a November crash that killed 86-year-old Fernando Ortiz.

MARCY, N.Y. — A former prison guard has been found guilty of manslaughter, but not guilty of murder, in the death of Messiah Nantwi, an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy. An Oneida ...

Chicago correctional system staff have probably seen every kind of contraband, but what is currently flooding the cells of the city’s most infamous jail is something far more elusive than anything ...

FILE - The Mid-State Correctional Facility is seen on April 16, 2025, in Marcy, N.Y. (AP Photo/Michael Hill, File) UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A former corrections officer was found guilty of manslaughter ...

These books were written with a poison pen. A string of inmate deaths at an infamous Chicago jail have been linked to a terrifying new drug trend — paper laced with a deadly drug and smuggled behind ...

A former corrections officer was found guilty of manslaughter Wednesday in the fatal beating of an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in upstate New York. The jury in Utica, New York, also ...