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A state commission tasked with finding ways to reduce Illinois’ prison population is recommending major changes to how the state punishes felons. The…

Any day now, Governor Bruce Rauner's criminal justice reform commission is expected to release its final set of recommendations. It's trying to figure out…

Gov. Bruce Rauner is ordering a former youth prison be re-opened as a center designed to reduce recidivism in an ongoing plan to reform criminal justice…

In January, the Illinois prison population was down by more than 2,500 inmates over a year earlier. But that’s still a long way off from Gov. Bruce...

Cook County has one of the largest jail systems in the U.S. The Illinois prison system struggles with overcrowding. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, a…

Governor Bruce Rauner says he’ll work to implement the recommendations of his criminal justice commission.He stopped by a meeting today, as commissioners…