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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

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 ...

BENTON — During a preliminary injunction hearing Friday at the Benton Federal Courthouse, a transgender Menard Correctional Center inmate made her case for immediate relief, asking to be transferred ...

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, ...

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SPRINGFIELD — 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 Dudenbostel told ...

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 ...