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B.B. King's Live in Cook County Jail album features a live recording of a concert that he performed for the jail's inmates on September 10, 1970. A live album Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail featuring performances by jazz musicians Jimmy McGriff and Lucky Thompson was released on the Groove Merchant label in 1973)
[27] [28] Conley and Banks are currently incarcerated at Florence ADX, the supermax facility in Colorado which holds the most dangerous inmates in the federal system, as well as inmates who constitute a high escape risk. [29] [30] Their release dates are in 2032 and 2040. Banks filed a $10 million lawsuit in 2014 for negligence for allowing him ...
The electric chair was first used at Stateville in 1949. Prior to that the electric chair was housed at the Joliet Correctional Center. [7] The state's other electrocutions were carried out at the Menard Correctional Center in Chester and at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. In July 1977, capital punishment was reinstated in Illinois.
At least 60 incarcerated people have died in Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S., since 2017, according to the jail’s data. For Cook County officials, these numbers ...
The Center Square unsuccessfully attempted to obtain comment from the IDOC. Earlier this fall, a Cook County corrections deputy, Shadonna Jones, was charged with trying to smuggle drug-soaked ...
The Sheriff’s Office said that on Aug. 8, 2023, jail security responded to a disturbance shortly after 9 a.m. and found two inmates fighting. Staff immediately separated the men and began ...
Lawrence Correctional Center: 2 – Secure Medium: 2,320 Pinckneyville Correctional Center: 2 – Secure Medium: 2,274 Western Illinois Correctional Center: 2 – Secure Medium: 1,871 Big Muddy River Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 1,598 Danville Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 1,864 Illinois River Correctional Center: 3 ...
The facility was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. [9] On May 30, 2017, one of the buildings (the mattress factory) in Joliet Correctional Center was heavily damaged by fire, the cause of which was later determined to be arson. This is the third building to be severely damaged or destroyed by fire at the facility. [10 ...