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  2. Menard Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Illinois Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    Western Illinois Correctional Center: 2 – Secure Medium: 1,871 Big Muddy River Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 1,598 Danville Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 1,864 Illinois River Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 2,094 Menard Medium Security Unit: 3 – High Medium: 441 Pontiac Medium Security Unit: 3 – High Medium: 488

  4. Menard, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois Department of Corrections Menard Correctional Center is located in the Menard area and in Chester. [3] [4] Prior to the January 11, 2003 commutation of death row sentences, male death row inmates were housed in Menard, Tamms, and Pontiac correctional centers. After that date, only Pontiac continued to host the male death row.

  5. Deputy who killed Sonya Massey to remain in jail, judge rules ...

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    In a jail booking video obtained by NBC Chicago through a public records request, Grayson talks with deputies from the Sangamon and Menard County sheriff’s offices. Grayson was being booked into ...

  6. Chester Mental Health Center - Wikipedia

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    The facility is operated by the State of Illinois in Chester, Illinois, and is a part of the Illinois Department of Human Services, formerly the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. It is adjacent to the Menard Correctional Center. The other secure mental health center in Illinois is Elgin Mental Health Center ...

  7. The U.N. calls restraint chairs torture. Illinois jails use ...

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    In Illinois, most county jail policies require staff to check on restrained detainees at 15- or 30-minute intervals and give them breaks every two hours to stretch, use the bathroom or drink water.

  8. Stateville Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    The state's other electrocutions were carried out at the Menard Correctional Center in Chester and at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. In July 1977, capital punishment was reinstated in Illinois. On September 8, 1983, the state adopted lethal injection as the default method of execution in Illinois, but the electric chair remained operational ...

  9. Tamms Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    The Tamms Correctional Center is a closed Illinois Department of Corrections prison located in Tamms, Illinois. [1] Prior to its 2013 closure, the prison housed people in two sections: (1) a 200-bed minimum security facility, opened in 1995, and (2) a 500-bed supermax facility known as the Closed Maximum Security Unit ("CMAX"), opened in 1998, that housed people defined by the prison ...