CHESTER — Last week, State Rep. Terri Bryant (R-Murphysboro) went to Menard Correctional Center after hearing about people at the prison being taken to the hospital after becoming ill. She posted a ...

CARTERVILLE, Ill. -- Multiple incidents have been reported in recent weeks at correctional facilities in Illinois, some of which resulted in hospital trips for officers, staff members and others. In ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - Hundreds of corrections workers across the state of Illinois are waiting to see what happens next after they spent the day hosting “informational pickets” at Illinois ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) – Two guards and a chaplain were injured Tuesday in an Illinois prison attack that union officials said involved up to 15 inmates, the latest in a series of violent incidents at ...

RANDOLPH COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - A staff member at Menard Correctional Center had to be revived with Narcan, according to internal documents from the Illinois Department of Corrections. State Senator ...

CHESTER, Ill. (AP) — A southwestern Illinois prison with the state's worst inmate-to-staff ratio of all Illinois maximum-security lockups has had an 'alarming' number of assaults perhaps blamed on the ...

CHESTER — Nine more staff members were hospitalized over the past week from Menard Correctional Center, bringing the reported total number of hospitalizations to at least 27. Among the hospitalized ...

CHESTER, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Department of Corrections records show an increased number of serious assaults at the Menard Correctional Center this year. Twenty serious assaults were reported by May ...

SPRINGFIELD — One of the state’s oldest prisons could be getting a little greener. As part of a push to use alternative fuels, Illinois Department of Corrections officials are assessing whether Menard ...

The violence over the past month led to one death last week at Menard Correctional Center, where the most recent assaults also happened. Union officials say the disturbances stem from Illinois Gov.