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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 .
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
Logan Correctional Center, one of only two prisons for women in Illinois, is slated for closure and rebuilding – possibly from Lincoln to the Chicago suburb of Crest Hill – under a plan from ...
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]