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Opened. 1858. Website. www.jolietprison.org. Joliet Correctional Center (originally known as Illinois State Penitentiary, colloquially as Joliet Prison, Joliet Penitentiary, the Old Joliet Prison, and the Collins Street Prison) was a prison in Joliet, Illinois, United States, from 1858 to 2002. It is featured in the motion picture The Blues ...
Imprisoned at. 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.
Maximum. Capacity. 4,134. Opened. 1925. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. 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 .
This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
Logan Correctional Center: 4 – Medium: 2,019 Sheridan Correctional Center: 4 – Medium: 2,104 Jacksonville Correctional Center: 5 – High Minimum: 1,012 Robinson Correctional Center: 5 – High Minimum: 1,223 Taylorville Correctional Center: 5 – High Minimum: 1,221 East Moline Correctional Center: 6 – Minimum: 1,228 Southwestern ...
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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.
The Joliet Iron and Steel Works was once the second largest steel mill in the United States. [2] Joliet Iron Works was initially run from 1869 to 1936. [3] [4] Joliet Steel Works eventually became unprofitable, and all operations were ceased by the early 1980s. [5]