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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 Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is the code department 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 .
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 .
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 ...
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.
Opened. 1871. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. Pontiac Correctional Center, established in June 1871, is an Illinois Department of Corrections maximum security prison (Level 1) for adult males in Pontiac, Illinois. The prison also has a medium security unit that houses medium to minimum security inmates and is classified as Level 3.
1984. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. The Shawnee Correctional Center is a medium-security state prison for men located in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois, owned and operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections. [1] The facility was first opened in 1984, and has a working capacity of 2147.
Capacity. 2529. Opened. 1983. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. The Dixon Correctional Center is a medium security adult male prison of the Illinois Department of Corrections in Dixon, Illinois. The prison was opened in July 1983 and has an operational capacity of 2,529 prisoners. [1]