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Stateville is located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Joliet, Illinois (16830 IL Route 53 Crest Hill, IL 60403; (815) 727-3607), on a site of over 2,200 acres (8.9 km 2), of which 64 acres (26 ha) are surrounded by a 33-foot (10 m) concrete perimeter with 10 wall towers.
CHICAGO — Dozens of men have begun to be transferred out of Stateville Correctional Center just north of Joliet as debates continue over the condition of the century-old prison and Gov. JB ...
The Illinois Department of Corrections said that U.S. District Judge Andrea R. Wood's order, issued Friday, to depopulate Stateville Correctional Center is in line with its plan to replace the ...
Shortly before December 5, 1991, Speck was transported from Stateville Correctional Center to Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Illinois after complaining of severe chest pains. [60] [61] Speck later died in the early morning hours of December 5, of what was believed to be a heart attack, one day shy of what would have been his 50th birthday. [62]
Members of a legislative review panel on Friday said a state proposal to replace the ancient Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Chicago makes sense, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration ...
Picture of Stateville Correctional Center, mistaken for the Joliet Correctional Center. 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 ...
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 ...
Jesse 'Ma' Houston Adult Transition Center: closed 2011; transitional facility; Joliet Prison: closed in 2002; 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Stateville Correctional Center; Kankakee Minimum-Security Unit; low minimum, closed 2010; Southern Illinois Adult Transition Center; closed 2012; Tamms Correctional Center: closed in 2013; maximum security