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Category of films set in the state of Illinois. ... Dead of Night (1977 film) Don't Look Up; Dreamer (1979 film) Dummy (1979 film) F. Fired Up! First Time Felon;
Film setting: This category is for films whose story, action, and/or other environment takes place at least part in prison. Filming location: If the place where some or all of the film is produced is in a prison, use the city, county, state, or other geographical location of the prison.
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 .
Additional discussion related to this cleanup effort can be found at Talk:List of prison films#Post-rescope content cleanup. ( August 2021 ) This is a list of prison films — films which are primarily concerned with prison life or prison escape or have at least one memorable prison scene.
The movie features interviews with former prison inmates, police officers, court officials, lawyers, and journalists, as well as many appearances by celebrities such as Danny Glover, B-Real, Macklemore, Deepak Chopra, RZA, Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip, Quincy Jones, Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, Ice-T, and Danny Trejo. [3]
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 ] The first 33 inmates arrived from Alton in May 1858 to begin construction; the last prisoners were transferred in July 1860.
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Sarver, in which the federal court ruled that Arkansas' prison system violated inmates' constitutional rights, and ordered reform. The film was originally based on the Louisiana State Prison (Angola) but the State of Louisiana successfully sued to block publication of both the novel and the screenplay if it made references to conditions at Angola.