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2 inmates at Wayne County Jail die by suicide as turmoil plagues new facility. Gannett. Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press. October 9, 2024 at 4:47 PM.
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 .
The state's other electrocutions were carried out at the Menard Correctional Center in Chester and at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. In July 1977, capital punishment was reinstated in Illinois. On September 8, 1983, the state adopted lethal injection as the default method of execution in Illinois, but the electric chair remained operational ...
Wayne County could be closer to losing the license for its juvenile jail after the state said Tuesday that it intends to downgrade the facility’s status for the second time in less than four months.
Wayne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census , it had a population of 16,179. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Fairfield . [ 2 ]
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
There's been increased spending on hiring and training of staff, part of a nearly $10 million boost Wayne County Executive Warren Evans and the county commission approved, officials said.That was ...
From at least the early 1960s, the prison included a reception and classification center for northern Illinois, holding new prisoners for less than a month before their final assignments and processing over 20,000 a year. In addition to the prisoners temporarily held in the R&C unit, Joliet maintained a large population of permanent inmates.