The second-oldest prison in Illinois, built to house 1,800 people, was already over capacity — at nearly 2,000 inmates — by 1878, Peerbolte said. In “Joliet Prisons: Images in Time,” local ...

Step inside the abandoned Joliet Prison in Chicago, Illinois—the iconic filming location from the hit series Prison Break.

As you motor southwest from Chicago, when you are almost within sight of Joliet ... prison to the new on the morning of the riot, but was sent back. Two days later, with all the Stateville ...

Rudy Valdez, 25, died from a stabbing in Trujillo's yard on the far west side of Joliet, in the 2900 block of Reflection ...

CHICAGO, July 14. -- Louis A. Gourdain, who is out of Joliet Prison on a writ, having been found guilty of conducting a lottery, is doing his best to get back into the penitentiary. He went to ...