Criminal Justice

Kathleen Kallan served as Will County judge from 1990 to 2006. She died Saturday at her home in Joliet.

After Monday's jury selection, the trial of Steven W. Coleman is underway in Whiteside County. Coleman is accused of setting a fire to the Western Apartments in Sterling that killed three people in June 2020.

Support systems for those returning to society from prison are limited, with scant programming for housing, education and job placement.

About 100 AU social work and criminal justice students attended the event.

The event regarding the cashless bail provision of the SAFE-T Act will be held at Universalist Unitarian Church of Joliet.

The Supreme Court appointed an associate judge running unopposed in November for the six-year circuit judgeship that opens this month in Whiteside County, rather than the county’s former state’s attorney, the sole applicant for the position.

Lynn Green is one of the first students to graduate from Northwestern’s Prison Education Program with his bachelor’s degree while at Stateville, as well as the first student to serve as an intern for a state senator.

Michael W.T. Bennett was sentenced to 60 years Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023 for the first degree murder of Joshua Hanmrick in May of 2021.

Manuel Escamilla, 23, of Joliet, pleaded guilty on Thursday to the aggravated arson charge, according to the Will County State’s Attorney's Office.

Kevin Johnson, director of Whiteside County Court Services, won the Gene Hughes Highest Professional Standards Award at the Illinois Probation and Court Services Association’s annual fall conference Nov. 3 in Effingham.

We still have police officers, right?

Rock Falls Mayor Bill Wescott Tuesday offered council members his thoughts on a criminal justice reform bill that awaits Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature