Centenarian Loretta Chamberlain spent her special day getting fingerprinted, meeting a K-9 and briefly being locked in a cell ...

The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.