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County officials and Gilbert's firm Bedrock brokered a deal in 2018 for the real estate firm to build the justice complex after the county abandoned plans to build its own jail, known as the "fail ...
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.
Two people have died by suicide in the new Wayne County Jail, Detroit police confirmed Tuesday, within a month of the move to the facility that has been plagued with complaints since its opening ...
Wayne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census , it had a population of 16,179. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Fairfield . [ 2 ]
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 .
Wayne County could be closer to losing the license for its juvenile jail after the state said Tuesday that it intends to downgrade the facility’s status for the second time in less than four months.
Menard Correctional Center opened in March 1878; it is the second oldest operating prison in Illinois, and, by a large margin, the state's largest prison. Menard once housed death row; however, on January 10, 2003, the Condemned Unit closed when then Governor George Ryan granted clemency to all Illinois death row inmates. [2]
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.