According to Jeff Wilhite, Spokesman for Sangamon County, an altercation occurred when an inmate attacked two corrections officers at the jail. One officer sustained non-life-threatening injuries ...

The Sangamon County Juvenile Detention Center has reopened after being closed for more than a year following an ...

Sangamon County government would be spared from a lawsuit and a potentially embarrassing trial under a proposed $10 million ...

The Sangamon County Juvenile Detention Center is reopening after being closed for a more than a year. The facility is ...

The Sangamon County Juvenile Detention is reopening after more than a year. The facility had been shut down after an armed teenager took another juvenile hostage and ...

Two minutes after entering, Sangamon ... county. Starla Smith's 23-year-old son Dylan Schlieper Clark died from what she says was a treatable staph infection after he was booked at the county jail ...

Two minutes after entering, Sangamon ... county. Starla Smith's 23-year-old son Dylan Schlieper Clark died from what she says was a treatable staph infection after he was booked at the county jail ...

In Springfield, Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell sued ... In other words, the inmate can sit in our jail and in perpetuity,” he explained. “The number of referrals IDHS receives monthly ...

Sangamon County, its sheriff's office and ... with a firearm and official misconduct charges. He remains in Macon County Jail, awaiting word on whether the Illinois Supreme Court will decide ...