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Menard Correctional Center, known prior to 1970 as Southern Illinois Penitentiary, is an Illinois state prison located in the town of Chester in Randolph County, Illinois. It houses maximum-security and high-medium-security adult males. The average daily population as of 2007 was 3,410. [1]
The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that operates the adult state prison system. The IDOC is led by a director appointed by the Governor of Illinois , [ 3 ] and its headquarters are in Springfield .
The Big Muddy River Correctional Center is a medium-security state prison for men located in Ina, Jefferson County, Illinois, owned and operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections. [ 1 ] The facility was first opened in 1993, and has a working capacity of 1958.
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Note: On May 30, 2019, the state Senate voted to override Governor Chris Sununu's veto on a bill that abolished the state's death penalty 16–8. Since the veto had already been overridden by the state House of Representatives, the bill immediately became law and repealed capital punishment, replacing it with life in prison without the ...
This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
Johnson, 48, had previously spent 25 years in prison for attempted murder when he was a high-ranking member of the Bloods gang, NBC New York reported. After his release, he began working for the ...
Joliet Correctional Center, which was a completely separate prison from Stateville Correctional Center 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 limestone used to build the prison was quarried on the site. [2]