The second-oldest prison in Illinois, built to house 1,800 people, was already over capacity — at nearly 2,000 inmates — by 1878, Peerbolte said. In “Joliet Prisons: Images in Time,” local ...

Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections ... facility to be built on its grounds. The prison is located just north of Joliet in Crest Hill. The state is also planning to replace ...

In a Joliet house on Hickory Street back in ... Experts told the I-Team that the Western Illinois Correctional Center was notorious for safety concerns. "Western has long been a facility that ...

Will County State’s Attorney’s Office sentenced Tamica Neal, 45, to 1 year in prison for fatally stabbing a dog in 2024. On ...

JOLIET, IL — The Will County State's Attorney's Office of Jim Glasgow obtained a 35-year prison term for Joliet baby killer Shanquilla Garvey, who murdered her own child, her 9-month-old little ...

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The charge is class A misdemeanor in state of Illinois, could result in up to one year in prison for Father Carlos Martins ...