Two guards and a chaplain were injured Tuesday in an downstate prison attack that union officials said involved up to 15 inmates, the latest in a series of violent incidents at the lockup and others ...

A media tour of Menard Correctional Center gives a glimpse of life behind bars at the maximum-security prison in southern Illinois. A prisoner looks out from his two-person cell at Menard Correctional ...

A Waukegan man convicted of a 2013 murder at a Lake County hotel was among three inmates who died on consecutive days last week at the Menard Correctional Center in downstate Chester, according to the ...

BENTON — After about six hours of negotiations, Strawberry (Deon) Hampton, the transgender Menard Correctional Center inmate who is suing the Illinois Department of Corrections for alleged abuses, ...

Inmates at a maximum-security prison in southern Illinois reported concern about "aggressive cellmates" shortly before a string of murders at the penitentiary, according to a report by an independent ...

CHESTER — The deaths of three Illinois prisoners over three days from "probable intoxication" of an unknown substance have raised questions about drug use behind bars and whether inmates are watched ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. An inmate grasps the bars on his two-person cell at Menard Correctional Center during a media tour of the prison in Chester, Ill.

The mother of an inmate who died from overheating at Menard Correctional Facility accused the prison of cruel and unusual punishment in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in East St. Louis. On the day Michael ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The Chicago-based John Howard Association prison watchdog group says the Menard Correctional Center downstate is becoming increasingly dangerous. As WBBM Newsradio's David Roe reports, ...

The Randolph County coroner has ruled another inmate death as a murder at the Menard maximum-security prison in Chester in far southern Illinois. Coroner Randy Dudenbostel says 35-year-old William ...

Randolph County Coroner Randy Dudenbostel said a 35-year-old inmate was pronounced dead at 10:36 p.m. Tuesday. An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday. “It’s being investigated as a suspicious death,” ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — For the third time in 10 weeks, a suspicious inmate death at Menard Correctional Center in far southern Illinois has been ruled a homicide. Randolph County Coroner Randy ...