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The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that operates the adult state prison system. The IDOC is led by a director appointed by the Governor of Illinois , [ 3 ] and its headquarters are in Springfield .
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.
1975. Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago ( MCC Chicago) is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences.
Prisons. Chippewa Valley Correctional Treatment Facility (formerly Highview; inmate operating capacity 450) Columbia Correctional Institution (capacity 541) Dodge Correctional Institution. Fox Lake Correctional Institution. Green Bay Correctional Institution. Jackson Correctional Institution (capacity 988) Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution.
Cook County Jail. 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 ...
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 ...
The Department of Corrections reports that since 2013, the overall prison population has been steadily dropping. There were 48,653 inmates across the state in 2013.
Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. The Lawrence Correctional Center is a maximum security adult male prison of the Illinois Department of Corrections in Sumner, Illinois, approximately 65 miles (105 km) north of Evansville, Indiana. The prison was opened in November 2001 and has an operational capacity of 2,458 prisoners.