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MSNBC created a documentary about the Stateville Correctional Center: MSNBC Investigates Lockup. The prison-riot footage and scenes of a prison warden rushing down a hallway in a herd of reporters in the 1994 film Natural Born Killers were filmed in vacant buildings at Stateville while most of the prison was still in use housing inmates. Actual ...
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 ...
Illinois must move most of the inmates at its 100-year-old prison within less than two months because of decrepit conditions, a federal judge ruled. The Illinois Department of Corrections said ...
Picture of Stateville Correctional Center, mistaken for the Joliet Correctional Center. 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.
Members of a legislative review panel on Friday said a state proposal to replace the ancient Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Chicago makes sense, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration ...
Pontiac Correctional Center: 1 – Maximum: 1,492 Stateville Correctional Center: 1 – Maximum: 1,648 Northern Reception and Classification (NRC) 1 – Maximum 1,625 Dixon Correctional Center: 1 – Maximum (X-House Psychiatric) 3 – High Medium (Main/SMC) 5 – High Minimum (Dorm Units) 2,529 Hill Correctional Center: 2 – Secure Medium: 1,867
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]
Around 100 students are enrolled in the Northwestern program across Stateville and the Logan Correctional Center, a women's prison. Newly-minted Northwestern graduate James Soto plans to continue ...