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The old and smaller Joliet Correctional Center, which had opened in 1858 on a site in Joliet 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the south-southeast, was being considered for closure. . Construction commenced on the new Stateville facility in 1917, in what was then an unincorporated area of Lockport Township, [a] opening in 1925 with capacity to accommodate 1,506 inmat
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. ... moving forward with closing Stateville by ...
In design it was an exact mini-replica of the male prison. In 1933 all female prisoners were moved to the Oakdale Women's Reformatory (later known as Dwight Correctional Center) and the facility was used for male prisoners. [3] The women's prison was converted into secondary facility to house male prisoners, making Joliet Prison an all-male ...
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 ...
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
Statesville Haunted Prison, used to be the haunted house in the Chicagoland area to go to if you wanted the living daylights scared out of you (for 25 years!).
This year, the experience has introduced the Escaped Prisoners of Statesville Haunted Prison, complete with new villains hiding within the walls and in the woods. Larry K. / Yelp St. Louis, Missouri
Halloween Night – Journalist Miss Quinn comes to the Statesville Mental Hospital to interview Warden Kane. The warden introduces Ms. Quinn to five of the asylum’s most notorious serial killer inmates. Jeffrey Ramses was a chef who became known as "Animal the Cannibal" for serving victims to his customers.