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What it’s like to graduate from college while inside an Illinois prison Incarcerated students accepted their diplomas from Augustana College at a commencement inside East Moline Correctional Center.

Incarcerated students accepted their diplomas from Augustana College at a commencement inside East Moline Correctional Center.

Over 40 workers are outside the Western Illinois Corrections Center in Mt. Sterling asking the Department of Corrections to scan the mail going into the prison.

A Mount Sterling restaurant is trying to leave its mark with food. However, they have a larger appetite to impact the community beyond the kitchen by helping those dealing with addiction.

MOUNT STERLING, Ill. — A Mount Sterling man charged with three felonies for smuggling drugs and a cellphone into the Mount Sterling prison was sentenced Wednesday to four years in the Illinois ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois must move most of the inmates at its 100-year-old prison within less than two months because of decrepit conditions, a federal judge ruled.

MOUNT STERLING, Ill. — A Mount Sterling man who formerly worked as a carpenter at the Western Illinois Correctional Center has been charged with three felonies in connection with smuggling drugs and a ...

After his commutation, Collins was transferred to Western Correctional Center in Mount Sterling. It was there that Collins had access to educational and reintegration programs, he said.

Charles Collins, the final Illinoisan serving a life sentence for drug offenses under the state’s so-called three-strikes law, has been released from prison.

Western Illinois Correctional Center in Mount Sterling is one of 10 state prisons to be cited by the Illinois EPA for violations related to water quality.