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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.
Joliet Iron Works was initially run from 1869 to 1936. Joliet Steel Works eventually became unprofitable, and all operations were ceased by the early 1980s. In the 1990s, the Forest Preserve District of Will County purchased the property containing the ruins of the ironworks to preserve a piece of history. The district operates the site as the ...
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.
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 .
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]
The "Slammers" name refers to the famous prisons of Joliet and Will County (Joliet Correctional Center and Stateville Correctional Center) as well as a common baseball term. On September 18, 2011, the Slammers were named Frontier League champions after defeating the River City Rascals , 6–5 in Joliet, taking the best-of-five Frontier League ...
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. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons ...
In the end, inmates faced convictions stemming from the Pontiac prison riot but no one faced murder charges for the three guards who were killed.