The state is backing out of its 10-year, $4 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, but the new contractor has its own ...

Illinois has a law to release seriously ill and disabled prisoners. It’s time to use it. Releasing the terminally ill and seriously disabled, under a 2022 law, would help ease the burden on the ...

CBS News contributor David Begnaud shows how Willette Benford, who spent 24 years in prison, is working with Illinois first lady M.K. Pritzker to help those exiting the criminal justice system.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving ...