I was relieved because I was like ‘ok he’s in jail now, he’s going to be ok, he’s safe.’ But I guess I was wrong,” Thelma said. “ The jail did not protect him. He was not safe in jail.” ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

A lawsuit filed in December claims that three corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility "planted drugs" on an ...

Michael Lee Wood has been in prison for 47 years, serving a life sentence for murder. But that’s only half of the story.