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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 .
The center of the district includes Waterloo's town square, the site of the Monroe County Courthouse, as well as a two-block section of Main Street which forms the city's commercial core. The town square is surrounded by residential development on three sides, an unusual arrangement among small towns in Illinois.
On January 3, 2013, Conley was apprehended in Palos Hills, Illinois. [27] [28] Conley and Banks are currently incarcerated at Florence ADX, the supermax facility in Colorado which holds the most dangerous inmates in the federal system, as well as inmates who constitute a high escape risk. [29] [30] Their release dates are in 2032 and 2040 ...
This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
The Monroe County Coroner on Wednesday released the identification of the men killed in a two-vehicle crash south of Waterloo last week.. Jeremy V. Hicks, 44, and Bud G. Rhodes Jr., 44, both of ...
Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 34,962. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Waterloo. [2] Monroe County is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located in the southern portion of Illinois known historically as "Little Egypt".
In October 2012, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) purchased Thomson Correctional Center from the State of Illinois for $165 million. [5] Plans to transfer inmates from Guantanamo Bay to the facility had already been blocked by Congress. In August 2014, Donald Hudson was named the first warden of the prison. [6]
John Henry Seadlund (July 27, 1910 – July 14, 1938) was a 27-year-old woodsman, executed by the United States federal government in Illinois for kidnapping. [1] FBI director J. Edgar Hoover called him "the nation’s cruelest criminal" and the "most cold-blooded, ruthless and atrocious killer" he'd ever encountered.