Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, trans people are “told one thing from one staff person and a totally different ...

Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, trans people are “told one thing from one staff person and a totally different ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

The release date for a former state lawmaker who represented part of Bartholomew County and is currently in federal prison for corruption has been moved up, according to federal records.

I am grateful to Connecticut for banning the death penalty, but it is deeply troubling to me that Connecticut companies are ...

A decade after Connecticut emptied its death row, state lawmakers are again tinkering with the machinery of death, responding ...

R. Kelly’s racketeering and sex trafficking convictions, along with a 30-year prison sentence, were upheld Wednesday by a ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

A Lebanon man who stole $37.7 million during a cryptocurrency hack was sentenced Thursday to the maximum 20 years in federal ...

President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full pardon to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted on 18 ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday, returning to a strategy ...

CHICAGO – Former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, ...