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Opened. 1878. Managed by. 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.
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]
State (s) Texas and Illinois. Date apprehended. April 1, 1990. Imprisoned at. Menard Correctional Center. Robert Benjamin Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as The Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. He is confirmed to have tortured and killed at least two couples in Illinois and Texas in 1989 and 1990, and is ...
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.
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 ...
John Wayne Gacy – Serial killer and rapist convicted of the murders and rapes of 33 boys and young men in 1980. Transferred from the Menard Correctional Center to Stateville Correctional Center for execution by lethal injection on May 9, 1994, and declared dead at 12:58 a.m. the following morning. Gacy was the first person involuntarily ...
January 28, 2000. Imprisoned at. Menard Correctional Center, Randolph County, Illinois. Andre Crawford (March 20, 1962 – March 18, 2017) was an American serial killer, rapist and necrophile who killed 11 women between 1993 and 1999 in Chicago. Many of the women were addicted to drugs or worked as sex workers.
Illinois River Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 2,094 Menard Medium Security Unit: 3 – High Medium: 441 Pontiac Medium Security Unit: 3 – High Medium: 488 Shawnee Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 2,147 Centralia Correctional Center: 4 – Medium: 1,528 Decatur Correctional Center: 4 – Medium: 790 Graham Correctional Center ...