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Stateville is often confused with the former Joliet Correctional Center, which closed in 2002. Located in the nearby city of Joliet, the former Joliet Prison is much older and smaller. It is located about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southeast of Stateville on the corner of Woodruff Rd. and Collins St., across the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
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.
Crest Hill decided to incorporate itself to avoid being annexed by the City of Joliet and became officially incorporated as the City of Crest Hill January 22, 1960. According to the 2010 census, Crest Hill has a total area of 9.166 square miles (23.74 km 2 ), of which 9.03 square miles (23.39 km 2 ) (or 98.52%) is land and 0.136 square miles (0 ...
Civil rights lawyers representing people incarcerated at Stateville filed the motion in July for a relatively quick transfer or release of people at Stateville as part of 2013 litigation over the ...
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 ...
Around 100 students are enrolled in the Northwestern program across Stateville and the Logan Correctional Center, a women's prison. Newly-minted Northwestern graduate James Soto plans to continue ...
Robinson Correctional Center: 5 – High Minimum: 1,223 Taylorville Correctional Center: 5 – High Minimum: 1,221 East Moline Correctional Center: 6 – Minimum: 1,228 Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center: 6 – Minimum: 621 Vandalia Correctional Center: 6 – Minimum: 1,700 Vienna Correctional Center: 6 – Minimum: 1,616 Clayton Work ...
Joliet Statesville in Blues Brothers 2000 02:44, 12 December 2005 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joe The Dragon (talk • contribs) It was Joliet, which was closed down for prisoners, but sits within the general site for the newer Statesville Prison. 06:15, 12 June 2006 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.239.22.245 (talk ...