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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

*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.

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 ...

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Jul. 10—CHESTER — Hundreds of Menard Correctional Center employees and their supporters staged a rally alongside a busy street in Chester on Monday, July 8, 2024, highlighting what they described as ...

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,” ...

The Illinois Department of Corrections is investigating the Nov. 19 death of a 34-year-old inmate state officials allege was killed by his cellmate while both were in segregation at Menard ...

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 ...