The Old Joliet Prison, as it’s known locally, is offering public tours. But the prison outside Chicago is not the Alcatraz of the Midwest. It hasn’t been spruced up with exhibits and an audio ...

Weeks after pleading guilty to murder and being sentenced to Illinois Department of Corrections, Shanquilla Garvey had a change of heart.

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Joliet, Ill.? When Wentworth Miller needs inspiration for his character on Fox’s “Prison Break,” he just takes a look at the fortresslike limestone walls surrounding him. There’s nothing ...

a state prison near Joliet, Ill. “Many of my students haven’t learned in an academic setting about the data and history of systemic discrimination,” Lackey says. “My mass incarceration class helps ...