Nineteen inmates filed a class-action lawsuit claiming Illinois prisons punish instead of treat mental illness. Advocates say court-ordered reforms from a previous case were abandoned in 2022. The ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Republicans are speaking out after Gov. JB Pritzker signed changes to the state’s Prisoner Review Board. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 19, which includes ...

Patrick Collins, the former federal prosecutor who sent Republican Gov. George Ryan to prison, led Quinn’s Illinois Reform Commission 16 years ago and lamented recently that the panel “did not ...