CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Lawmakers from around Illinois recently met with staff from the Pontiac Correctional Center to discuss unsafe work conditions. WCIA reported that prison workers from Central ...

Blaze Burford, president of AFSCME Local 1274, said the same issues are plaguing the prison as last year. They don’t have ...

PONTIAC, IL — A corrections officer faces up to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of possession with intent to deliver drugs and official misconduct at the Pontiac Correctional Center. It ...

PONTIAC - A prison guard was injured by an inmate at the Pontiac Correctional Center Monday, just one month after the Quinn administration moved inmates out of a southern Illinois lock-up designed for ...

SPRINGFIELD — A southern Illinois judge has temporarily thwarted Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s push to close Pontiac Correctional Center by Dec. 31. In a decision Wednesday, Johnson County Judge James ...

Government workers will be picketing outside Illinois prisons Thursday afternoon to demand safer working conditions. Members of the AFSCME Could 31 union will hold an informational picket from 2 to ...

A Pontiac man was sentenced Thursday for a slaying that happened after someone had spit in a sink. At the hearing in Oakland County Circuit Court, Judge Jeffery Matis sent Sadarie Deshawn Donalson to ...