What is the Justice-Impacted Writers Project? What is going on with Purple Line accessibility? How did Northwestern celebrate Lunar New Year? The Daily answers these questions and recaps other top stories...

Although Frank Alexander II spent his time incarcerated working in offices, healthcare and a print shop, he was told upon release that he would be “better off at a restaurant washing dishes” because...

Screenwriter Sammy Horowitz was incarcerated for almost a decade. He said he spent three of those years in the recently closed Stateville Correctional Center, just an hour-long drive from Evanston.  About...

Formerly incarcerated individuals and criminal justice professionals advocated for the return of parole to Illinois at a panel hosted by the Northwestern Prison Education Program at Norris University Center...

Fifteen environmental and prison reform groups filed an emergency petition asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address dangerous water quality in Illinois prisons, organizers announced at...