Much attention has been paid to malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary and the fraught ethical issues that the carceral studies raised. Stateville inmates were ...

June 11, 2025—The next time your doctor suggests that you take a genetic test before prescribing a drug, you can thank a group of Black inmates imprisoned outside Chicago 75 years ago. The story ...

Authorities quickly hustled convicted mass murderer Robert Crimo III out of the Lake County jail last week and to his new home at Stateville Correctional Center. Surely, Lake County corrections ...

CREST HILL, Ill. (WLS) -- An inmate at Stateville prison in Crest Hill is being treated for Legionnaires' disease, a severe form of pneumonia. The inmate is now at a hospital outside of the prison. No ...

A federal judge this summer ordered state prison officials to move most people incarcerated at Stateville by Sept. 30, after civil rights lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of inmates arguing ...

Much has been said and written over the years about controversial malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois’ Stateville Penitentiary starting in the 1940s. But at least one part of that story ...

After doing eight long years at the infamous Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet, Hammond resident Kevin Thomas knew he had to escape. The former correctional officer said he felt compelled to ...

SPRINGFIELD — Stateville Correctional Center could close as early as September under a plan laid out by Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration on Friday. Top officials with the Illinois Department of ...

CHICAGO — The family of a man who died while in custody at Stateville Correctional Center during an early summer heat wave sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, a prison health care provider ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Robert Crimo III, the man who admitted to ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WLS) -- The Highland Park parade shooter will now begin serving his life sentence. Police confirmed Friday Robert Crimo III was transferred to Stateville Correctional Center in Crest ...