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Illinois Department of Corrections. 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.
July 24, 1993. Imprisoned at. Menard Correctional Center, Chester, Illinois. Lorenzo Fayne (born April 2, 1971) is an American serial killer and rapist who, between 1989 and 1993, murdered one woman and five children in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois. In 2001, he was convicted and sentenced to death, but the following year, in response to ...
Pontiac Correctional Center housed the male death row, while Dwight Correctional Center housed the female death row. Prior to the January 11, 2003 commutation of death row sentences, male death row offenders were housed at Pontiac, Menard , and Tamms correctional centers. [ 7 ]
Harris, 73, died at Menard Correctional Center on Sept. 11. Ashland, which has a population of 1,200, is "a very sad community right now," said village president Kitty Mau. "Everybody's trying to ...
Jesse Donald Sumner (January 9, 1937 – December 4, 2005) was an American serial killer and repeat prison escapee who murdered three young women in the vicinity of the Illinois State University from 1972 to 1973, following his parole for the 1963 murder of his accomplice in a robbery. For the latter crimes, he was given multiple 50-to-200 year ...
Menard Correctional Center. John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois. He became known as the Killer Clown due to his public performances as a clown prior to the discovery of ...
David James Hendricks was born in Morton Grove and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. He was a member of the Exclusive branch of the Plymouth Brethren, a Christian denomination. He started and ran a highly successful business in Bloomington, Illinois, selling an orthopedic back-brace he had patented. [1] He later bought a large house at a then-new ...
10. Illinois. The Land of Lincoln has about 53,000 people in prison. The biggest prison in Illinois is the Menard Correctional Center, located near the Illinois-Missouri border. Rikers Island, New ...