There are now some 38,000 inmates in Illinois prisons, in a system designed for 23,500.

Mr. Salvi spoke of rumors that have circulated for years about lax conditions in Illinois prisons.

While Harry got off scot free, Pudgy was convicted and sentenced to an Illinois prison.

It is telling that 80 percent of the inmates in Illinois prisons had once been in foster care.

Three letters purportedly written from an Illinois prison by Joseph Smith used different ink, paper, and writing instruments.

About 1866 he strangled a man to death and was sentenced to nine years in Joliet, an Illinois prison.

He died in a downstate Illinois prison in May 2010.

Since the 1970's, it has also been an intake center where inmates are processed and then shipped off to one of the 27 other Illinois prisons.

Chicago Bears defensive tackle Tank Johnson sits in an Illinois prison, serving a four-month sentence for a probation violation, with more gun charges pending.

Mr. Gacy is on death row in an Illinois prison.