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Illinois Department of Corrections. Menard Correctional Center, known prior to 1970 as Southern Illinois Penitentiary, is an Illinois state prison located in the town of Chester in Randolph County, Illinois. It houses maximum-security and high-medium-security adult males. The average daily population as of 2007 was 3,410.
Joliet Correctional Centre. Southern Illinois Penitentiary. Richard Honeck (January 5, 1879 – December 28, 1976) was an American murderer who served one of the longest custodial sentences ever to terminate in a prisoner's release in American criminal history. Jailed in November 1899 for the murder of a former school friend, Honeck was paroled ...
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 Shawnee Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 2,147 Centralia Correctional Center: 4 – Medium: 1,528 Decatur Correctional Center: 4 – Medium: 790 Graham Correctional Center ...
Menard Correctional Center. John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois. He became known as the Killer Clown due to his public performances as a clown prior to the discovery of ...
10. Illinois. The Land of Lincoln has about 53,000 people in prison. The biggest prison in Illinois is the Menard Correctional Center, located near the Illinois-Missouri border. Rikers Island, New ...
The Tamms Correctional Center is a closed Illinois Department of Corrections prison located in Tamms, Illinois. 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 leadership as ...
Maximum. Capacity. 4,134. Opened. 1925. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. Stateville Correctional Center ( SCC) is a maximum security state prison for men in Crest Hill, Illinois, United States, near Chicago. [1] [2] It is a part of the Illinois Department of Corrections .
The Cook County Jail, located on 96 acres (39 hectares) in South Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois, is operated by the Sheriff of Cook County. [1] It is sometimes referred to as California or Hotel California, as its address is on California Avenue. A city jail has existed on this site since after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but major County ...