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Stephen Burrell Small (18 March 1947 – 2 September 1987) was a prominent American businessman in Kankakee, Illinois. In 1987, he was kidnapped and held for ransom by Danny Edwards and Nancy Rish. The conditions of his confinement caused him to die of asphyxiation. As a result, Edwards was given the death penalty (later commuted) and Rish was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
This list of wrongful convictions in the United States includes people who have been legally exonerated, including people whose convictions have been overturned or vacated, and who have not been retried because the charges were dismissed by the states. It also includes some historic cases of people who have not been formally exonerated (by a formal process such as has existed in the United ...
Prison rape commonly refers to the rape of inmates in prison by other inmates or prison staff. In 2001, Human Rights Watch estimated that at least 4.3 million inmates had been raped while incarcerated in the United States. [1] A United States Department of Justice report, Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, states ...
However, their abuse allegations gained traction in recent years after Roy Rosselló, a former member of the iconic 1980s boy band Menudo, came forward with his own allegations he was molested by ...
Dwight Correctional Center (DCC), also known as Oakdale Reformatory for Women, and Illinois Penitentiary for Women at Dwight, was a women's prison in Livingston County, Illinois, United States, outside the village of Dwight, Illinois. It operated from 1930 to 2013. It was established in 1930 as the Oakdale Reformatory for Women. [1] Over the course of its 83 years the reformatory maintained a ...
The Menendez brothers are back in the spotlight due to "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story." Lyle and Erik Menendez received consecutive life sentences in 1996 after killing their parents.
The B. Harley Bradley House is a Frank Lloyd Wright -designed home, constructed in the Prairie School style, that was constructed in Kankakee, Illinois in 1900–1901.
Samuel H. Shapiro Developmental Center, formerly named the Kankakee State Hospital, is a developmental center in Kankakee, Illinois, on the banks of the Kankakee River.