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Joliet Correctional Center, which was a completely separate prison from Stateville Correctional Center in nearby Crest Hill, opened in 1858. The prison was built with convict labor leased by the state to contractor Lorenzo P. Sanger and warden Samuel K. Casey. The limestone used to build the prison was quarried on the site. [2]
On March 18, 2015, Rowland was sentenced to prison for 30 months by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton. [47] Judge Arterton also fined Rowland $35,000 and ordered him to serve three years of supervision by the federal probation office upon his release. [47] Rowland turned down the opportunity to speak and appealed the sentence.
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 ]
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A Clinton County man convicted of a 1993 murder was among them.
Jack McCullough, who changed his name from John Tessier, as he was known around the time of Maria's 1957 kidnapping and murder, was released from an Illinois prison in 2016, ending a nearly five ...
Convicted 1988. Along with Gregory R. Wilhoit, Williamson later became the inspiration for and subject of John Grisham's 2006 non-fiction book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. [132] Ronald Jones, Illinois. Convicted 1989. Released May 17, 1999. [161] [162] Clarence Richard Dexter, Jr., Missouri. Convicted 1991. [163]
Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population. (Jails are short-term holding facilities in which many inmates have not been convicted; our study does not include deaths in prison.)