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When the two facilities began to be located together, they first gained the reputation as the 'largest concentration of inmates in the free world.' Later, the County and City jails were institutionally merged by the Illinois legislature, officially called the Cook County Department of Corrections, overseen by the Cook County Sheriff's Office ...
The IDOC is led by a director appointed by the Governor of Illinois, [3] and its headquarters are in Springfield. [4] The IDOC was established in 1970, combining the state's prisons, juvenile centers, and parole services. The juvenile corrections system was split off into the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice on July 1, 2006. [3]
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.
(This is the first in a three-part series remembering the Pontiac Correctional Center riot on July 22, 1978. The Pontiac Daily Leader interviewed PCC guards Tom Bailey, Richard Jones, Terry ...
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In a letter, Democrats urge the Illinois Department of Corrections to allow inmates to continue to receive their original physical mail. At a news conference Wednesday, state Rep. Charles Meier, R ...
A History of Camp Douglas, Illinois, Union Prison, 1861–1865 (PDF) (Report). National Park Service, Southeast Region; Levy, George (1999). To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862–1865 (revised ed.). Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-56554-331-7. Original edition 1994.
A man serving a 71-year prison sentence is seeking to have his murder conviction tossed out, in part because of allegations of misconduct by a Chicago Police officer who was once ripped by a judge ...