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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 execution chamber was located at Tamms Correctional Center. [8] Previously, inmates had been executed at Stateville Correctional Center. In March 1998, the site of executions was moved from Stateville Correctional Center to Tamms Correctional Center in Tamms, Illinois. [9]
The Stateville Correctional Center of the Illinois Department of Corrections is located in Crest Hill. [11] [12] John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Center in 1994. [13]
CHICAGO — Dozens of men have begun to be transferred out of Stateville Correctional Center just north of Joliet as debates continue over the condition of the century-old prison and Gov. JB ...
The Illinois Department of Corrections said that U.S. District Judge Andrea R. Wood's order, issued Friday, to depopulate Stateville Correctional Center is in line with its plan to replace the ...
Pritzker proposed in late winter replacing Stateville, a maximum-security prison in Crest Hill, and Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, one of the state's two lockups for women. Logan might be ...
Stateville Correctional Center Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago , residence via stabbing , strangling , slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966.
Stateville Correctional Facility in Crest Hill, Illinois, opened in 1925 with a layout that remains unique among American maximum-security prisons. ... All the cells face a circular ground floor ...