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Joliet Correctional Center, which was a completely separate prison from Stateville Correctional Center (part of which is a panopticon) in nearby Crest Hill, opened in 1858. The prison was built with convict labor leased by the state to contractor Lorenzo P. Sanger and warden Samuel K. Casey.
The IDOC is led by a director appointed by the Governor of Illinois, [3] and its headquarters are in Springfield. [4] The IDOC was established in 1970, combining the state's prisons, juvenile centers, and parole services. The juvenile corrections system was split off into the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice on July 1, 2006. [3]
In May 2021, the Illinois Department of Corrections called for Stateville to be converted from a Level 1 maximum security facility to a multi-level facility focused on returning inmates to society. In March 2024, the State announced plans to temporarily close the prison, demolish it, and construct a new facility on the grounds. [11]
The prison is located on Farm to Market Road 655, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Farm to Market Road 521, [3] and south of Houston. [4] The 16,369-acre (6,624 ha) unit is co-located with the Stringfellow Unit and the Terrell Unit .
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 ruled. The Illinois Department of Corrections said ...
The Tamms Correctional Center is a closed Illinois Department of Corrections prison located in Tamms, Illinois. [1] Prior to its 2013 closure, the prison housed people in two sections: (1) a 200-bed minimum security facility, opened in 1995, and (2) a 500-bed supermax facility known as the Closed Maximum Security Unit ("CMAX"), opened in 1998, that housed people defined by the prison ...
A Clinton County man convicted of a 1993 murder was among them.
Officials at the state Department of Juvenile Justice did not respond to questions about YSI. A department spokeswoman, Meghan Speakes Collins, pointed to overall improvements the state has made in its contract monitoring process, such as conducting more interviews with randomly selected youth to get a better understanding of conditions and analyzing problematic trends such as high staff turnover.