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2827. Population. 1858. Opened. 1998. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. Pinckneyville Correctional Center is a medium disciplinary-security Illinois state prison located in the town of Pinckneyville in Perry County. Pinckneyville first opened its doors in 1998, the facility consists of five general population housing units.
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 ...
Illinois Department of Corrections. The Big Muddy River Correctional Center is a medium-security state prison for men located in Ina, Jefferson County, Illinois, owned and operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections. [1] The facility was first opened in 1993, and has a working capacity of 1958. It is notable for being the only state ...
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Pinckneyville is located on Illinois Route 13 about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of St. Louis. According to the 2010 census, Pinckneyville has a total area of 4.315 square miles (11.18 km 2), of which 4.04 square miles (10.46 km 2) (or 93.63%) is land and 0.275 square miles (0.71 km 2) (or 6.37%) is water.
On 11 April 1993, a major riot broke out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility that resulted in ten deaths. Nine inmates and one corrections officer were killed. In 2019, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer reported that the department's inspection office had a single full-time employee, and used interns to conduct inspections.
Opened. 1878. Managed by. 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 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]