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Pontiac Correctional Center, established in June 1871, is an Illinois Department of Corrections maximum security prison (Level 1) for adult males in Pontiac, Illinois.The prison also has a medium security unit that houses medium to minimum security inmates and is classified as Level 3.
The Pontiac Daily Leader interviewed PCC guards Tom Bailey, Richard Jones, Terry Norgaard and Dan Ramsey, and Al Lindsey of the Illinois State Police, all of whom were inside the walls of the ...
The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that operates the adult state prison system. The IDOC is led by a director appointed by the Governor of Illinois, [3] and its headquarters are in Springfield.
In the end, inmates faced convictions stemming from the Pontiac prison riot but no one faced murder charges for the three guards who were killed. 1978 Pontiac Correctional Center riot: Warring ...
This is a list of longest prison sentences served by a single person, worldwide, without a period of freedom followed by a second conviction. These cases rarely coincide with the longest prison sentences given, because some countries have laws that do not allow sentences without parole or for convicts to remain in prison beyond a given number of years (regardless of their original conviction).
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard speaks during a news conference in Pontiac, Michigan, on February 1, 2018. ... were children inside. Their father lost contact with the kids while in prison ...
State budget constraints as well as labor union opposition to closing other state prisons prevented the maximum-security prison from opening. [14] In 2008, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich proposed to close the state prison in Pontiac and to open the Thomson maximum-security unit instead. However, Blagojevich was subsequently arrested on ...
Robert Brooks, an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y. is seen bloodied as correctional officers detain him in the prison infirmary on Dec. 9, 2024.