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Sep 17, 2024 · Here’s how men incarcerated there will remember it. Living conditions inside the nearly 100-year-old prison are “horrible,” but the bonds forged between some men were like family, they say ...
- Abrupt transfers for Stateville prisoners begin as officials ...
Stateville prison is closing. Here’s how men incarcerated...
- Abrupt transfers for Stateville prisoners begin as officials ...
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.
6 days ago · Now, 76 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of neglected repairs later, the Illinois prison home of infamous killers Leopold and Loeb and Richard Speck, and the site of John Wayne Gacy’s execution, is shutting down.
Aug 22, 2024 · Stateville prison is closing. Here’s how men incarcerated there will remember it. Living conditions inside the nearly 100-year-old prison are “horrible,” but the bonds forged between some ...
The Illinois Department of Corrections has begun transferring inmates from the facility in the Chicago suburb of Crest Hill, a contentious decision bolstered by a federal court order. Last spring, Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration announced a $900 million plan to replace Stateville, which opened in 1925, with a state-of-the-art facility on adjacent, state-owned land.
4 days ago · Ruling in a decade-old lawsuit challenging the health and safety of Stateville's environment, U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood on Aug. 9 ordered most of the prison's 430 inmates to be evacuated by ...
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Mar 9, 2021 · Among the 1,091 inmates at Stateville, 303 have tested positive for coronavirus and at least thirteen have died. In an effort to mitigate prison infection rates, Gov. J.B. Pritzker began granting clemencies in March 2020.
