An Illinois Fraternal Order of Police lodge is demanding the removal of Illinois Department of Corrections' acting director ...

(CNN) — An Illinois correctional officer accused of beating a man in custody has been charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct, authorities said. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office this ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Willie Hedden, 43, a former sergeant at the ...

A contrite Willie Hedden, the last of three ex-correctional officers convicted in the beating death of an Illinois prison inmate, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison after pleading ...