BELOIT, Wis. -- An Illinois man will spend the next five years in federal prison after prosecutors said he sold cocaine while on parole for a previous drug trafficking conviction. Tyreese Taylor, 43, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael McClain, a co-defendant in the federal case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, enters the federal ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime associate has begun serving a two-year prison sentence at a federal medical facility and minimum security camp in Lexington, Kentucky. Michael ...

BUCKEYE, AZ (AZFamily) — A man is dead after allegedly being attacked by his cellmate at a prison in the West Valley on Saturday. Officials from the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & ...

VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - A 21-year-old was found dead in his prison cell at Valdosta State Prison on Dec. 24. The Lowndes County Coroner’s Office responded and pronounced Je’Vion Benham dead at 6 p.m.

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Under long-time federal law marijuana had been in the same class as heroin and LSD, but thanks to a decision by President Donald Trump, it will be grouped with drugs like Tylenol and steroids.

ROCKFORD, Ill. — A man who stabbed his inmate to death while at an Illinois prison has been given his sentence. In November 2020, Houston Clyde, then 23, stabbed his cellmate to death while the pair ...

A semi-pro baseball team in Illinois is going to jail — literally. The Joliet Slammers, a member of the MLB-partnered Frontier League, announced late last week that they will take the field at the ...

(TNS) — Incarcerated individuals in Illinois could start earning money behind bars if a newly proposed bill were to pass. Illinois Democratic Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet, who represents the 5th District ...