When staff at the Logan Correctional Center learned a prison counselor may have been repeatedly sexually assaulting a female ...

A woman is suing the state of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Corrections, alleging the state prison system forced her to give birth before she was due. Amy Hicks was in custody at the Logan ...

Just because we are going through something with our criminal past does not have anything to do with our reproductive rights, ...

A woman is suing the Illinois Department of Corrections, claiming she was forced to give birth before her due date while she was incarcerated in 2024. According to the federal lawsuit, Amy Hicks was ...

Other inmates warned Hicks that the prison would force her delivery through an induction of labor, a procedure typically reserved for medical necessities, none of which applied to her, she said. She ...