Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Commissary list, circa 2013. A prison commissary [1] or canteen [2] is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing instruments, etc. Typically inmates are not allowed to possess cash; [3] instead, they make purchases through an account with funds from money contributed by friends, family members, etc., or earned as wages.
State budget constraints as well as labor union opposition to closing other state prisons prevented the maximum-security prison from opening. [14] In 2008, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich proposed to close the state prison in Pontiac and to open the Thomson maximum-security unit instead. However, Blagojevich was subsequently arrested on ...
Jul. 8—The Payne County Board of Commissioners focused on contracts during its June 29 meeting, the final meeting of fiscal year 2021/2022. The agenda included a lengthy list of contracts for ...
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]
[1]: 266 Hills in the area attracted some settlement in 1811 by refugees from the New Madrid Earthquake seeking stable ground, [1]: 283 but even at the end of the War of 1812, the white man was much less numerous than the red in this part of the Illinois Territory. [1]: 268 Union County was formed by a law of January 1818, which specified the ...
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago (MCC Chicago) is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences.
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 woman who worked in MPS schools has been charged with sexually assaulting a student. Oshai Williams, 31, was charged April 14 in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of sexual assault ...