*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A media tour of Menard Correctional Center gives a glimpse of life behind bars at the maximum-security prison in southern ...

Gacy resided at Menard Correctional Center in Illinois for 14 years on death row, until all of his appeals were denied. On ...

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: “The ...

CHESTER, IL (KFVS) - A 20-year veteran of the Illinois Department of Corrections was named Warden of Menard Correctional Center on Wednesday, April 16. Kim Butler is the first woman ever to serve as ...

John Wayne Gacy spent his years on death row proclaiming his innocence from a 900 number, painting clowns and finding ways to ...

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 at ...

Inmates at a maximum-security prison in southern Illinois reported concern about "aggressive cellmates" shortly before a string of murders at the penitentiary, according to a report by an independent ...

CHESTER -- The Menard Correctional Center in Chester is reporting an increase in coronavirus cases in guards and inmates. 37 guards and 40 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 according to the ...

Menard Correctional Center remains on full lockdown this week after a “staff assault” on Sunday resulted in an undisclosed number of prison staff and offenders being treated for non-life-threatening ...

As of Tuesday, the state is reporting a total of 25 active cases among employees and 60 among inmates. Another 25 employees and two inmates have recovered from COVID-19, according to the Illinois ...

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 Center ...

An exterior shot of the Menard Correctional Center, located in Menard, in Randolph County. Katherine Baskin Katherine Baskin The Menard Correctional Center in Randolph County was still on full ...