DWIGHT, Ill. — Nature has taken over the vacated Dwight Correctional Center, where a thin forest of spindly trees covers a 160-acre campus that old photos show once featured well-tended lawns and ...

DWIGHT — Prison guards at Dwight Correctional Center and other state facilities slated for closure this summer received layoff notices this week even though the sites’ fate is far from settled. “It’s ...

DWIGHT — A community meeting in Dwight on Monday will be the next in a series of steps to formulate a plan to save the Dwight Correctional Center from closure. “It’s important that the whole community ...

DWIGHT — A legislative panel will vote Tuesday on Gov. Pat Quinn’s plan to close the Dwight Correctional Center, a nonbinding recommendation that will be sent to the governor. “We are all very anxious ...

SPRINGFIELD — A prison watchdog group is calling on Gov. Pat Quinn to cancel plans to close the state’s maximum-security prison for women in Dwight. The Chicago-based John Howard Association issued a ...

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is proceeding with plans to shutter several prisons to cut costs, despite the fact lawmakers came up with funding to keep them open, the Chicago Tribune reports. The plans are ...

SPRINGFIELD — A prison watchdog group is calling on Gov. Pat Quinn to cancel plans to close the state’s maximum-security prison for women in Dwight. The Chicago-based John Howard Association issued a ...