A staff member at Pinckneyville Correctional Center received two doses of Narcan after having what “appeared to be a seizure,” according to documents obtained by Heartland News.

An acting Lt. at Pinckneyville Correctional Center pleaded guilty to federal charges on Wednesday, November 8 in connection with an investigation into the beating of a restrained inmate.

PINCKNEYVILLE - Some Southern Illinois prisons remain on lockdown in the wake of Monday's hostage situation at Pinckneyville Correctional Center, which ended in the death of an inmate.

PINCKNEYVILLE - An inmate of the Pinckneyville Correctional Center has been shot and killed, the end result of a nearly seven-hour hostage situation involving a female employee of the prison.

PINCKNEYVILLE - The inmate who was shot and killed during a hostage situation at Pinckneyville Correctional Center was identified Tuesday as Alonje Walton, 37, formerly of Cook County, Illinois ...

The increase far outpaces inmate assault numbers at similar high-level, medium-security prisons in Illinois. At the Lawrence Correctional Center in Sumner, there were 15 inmate assaults last ...

As featured on Multiple Incidents Reported at Correctional Centers in Illinois Recently CARTERVILLE, Ill. -- Multiple incidents have been reported in recent weeks at correctional f… ...

Officials put the Pinckneyville Correctional Center on lockdown Friday after an altercation between a staff member and inmate. According to Nicole Wilson, spokeswoman for the Illinois Department ...

BENTON — A former Illinois correctional officer received a four-month prison sentence for choking, punching and kneeing a handcuffed prisoner in 2016.

A planned 11 a.m. July 6 gathering in a public parking lot outside Pinckneyville Correctional Center to remember the late Earl Little has been canceled. The gathering originally was scheduled by ...

PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- Guards at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center and their union say they are not satisfied with administrative response following the attack of three guards by an inmate.