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Stateville's "F-House" cellhouse, commonly known as a "roundhouse", has a panopticon layout which features an armed tower in the center of an open area surrounded by several tiers of cells. F-House was the only remaining "roundhouse" still in use in the United States in the 1990s.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stateville Correctional Center Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago , residence via stabbing , strangling , slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966.
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 ...
Stateville Correctional Center James Earl Files (born January 24, 1942), also known as James Sutton , [ a ] is an American former prisoner . In 1994, while serving a 50-year sentence for the 1991 attempted murders of two police officers, Files gave interviews stating that he was the " grassy knoll shooter" in the 1963 assassination of United ...