Hundreds of Menard Correctional Center employees and their supporters staged a rally in Chester on Monday, highlighting what they described as perilous working conditions at the state’s largest ...

Lockdowns can be indistinguishable from solitary confinement-like conditions, with those incarcerated given little yard time and limited access to educational programming and commissary.

CHESTER, Ill. — Hundreds of Menard Correctional Center employees and their supporters staged a rally alongside a busy street in Chester on Monday, highlighting what they described as perilous ...

CHESTER, Ill. (KFVS) - The Illinois Department of Corrections responded to a picket at the Menard Correctional Center. In a statement released by a DOC spokeswoman on Tuesday, July 9, they said ...

Hundreds of Menard Correctional Center employees and their supporters staged a rally alongside a busy street in Chester on Monday, highlighting what they described as perilous working conditions ...

The Menard Correctional Center is on lockdown and personal protective equipment has been given to staff to wear as a hazmat team and the Department of Corrections investigates an incident.

Union staffers at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, IL protested what they say are unsafe conditions, staff shortage ...

A staff member at Menard Correctional Center had to be revived with Narcan, according to internal documents from the Illinois Department of Corrections.

The Menard Correctional Center is shown on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 in Chester, Ill. Two guards and a chaplain were injured Tuesday in an attack by a large group of inmates at Menard Correctional ...

Hundreds of Menard Correctional Center employees and their supporters staged a rally in Chester on Monday, highlighting what they described as perilous working conditions at the state’s largest ...