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Capacity. 4,134. Opened. 1925. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. Stateville Correctional Center (SCC) is a maximum security state prison for men in Crest Hill, Illinois, United States, near Chicago. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is a part of the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Illinois' Stateville Correctional Center begins transferring out prisoners amid concerns over conditions Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune August 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Nonetheless, Corrections officials' decision to shutter the facility this month was made long before the court decision made it inevitable. Ruling in a decade-old lawsuit challenging the health and safety of Stateville's environment, U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood on Aug. 9 ordered most of the prison's 430 inmates to be evacuated by Sept. 30.
August 12, 2024 at 5:19 PM. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois must move most of the inmates at its 100-year-old prison within less than two months because of decrepit conditions, a federal judge ...
The execution chamber was located at Tamms Correctional Center. [8] Previously, inmates had been executed at Stateville Correctional Center. In March 1998, the site of executions was moved from Stateville Correctional Center to Tamms Correctional Center in Tamms, Illinois. [9]
Stateville Correctional Facility in Crest Hill, Illinois, opened in 1925 with a layout that remains unique among American maximum-security prisons. At its core sits a large cylindrical building ...
Stateville Correctional Center Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago , residence via stabbing , strangling , slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966.
Pritzker proposed in late winter replacing Stateville, a maximum-security prison in Crest Hill, and Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, one of the state's two lockups for women. Logan might be ...