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Prior attempts to upgrade pay for the incarcerated to minimum wage have fallen short in the Illinois General Assembly. Thousands of jobs, pennies on the dollar: How Illinois uses prison labor Skip ...
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 .
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 ...
Lindall of AFSCME said individuals transferred out of Stateville in the past few weeks were expected to go to Shawnee Correctional Center, Centralia Correctional Center, Western Illinois ...
The Pre-Trial Justice Institute noted, "Six out of 10 people in U.S. jails—nearly a half million individuals on any given day—are awaiting trial. People who have not been found guilty of the charges against them account for 95% of all jail population growth between 2000–2014." [115] [116]
The prison was fully activated in January 2019 and as of March 2020, the prison had an inmate population of 1,067. [7] [8] In June 2019, the prison crossed the 400 employee mark with an authorization to hire 200 more over the next few years as inmate population continues to ramp up. [8]
The Tamms Correctional Center is a closed Illinois Department of Corrections prison located in Tamms, Illinois. [1] Prior to its 2013 closure, the prison housed people in two sections: (1) a 200-bed minimum security facility, opened in 1995, and (2) a 500-bed supermax facility known as the Closed Maximum Security Unit ("CMAX"), opened in 1998, that housed people defined by the prison ...
The Jacksonville Correctional Center is a minimum-security state prison for men located in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, owned and operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections. [1] The facility was opened in 1984 and has a capacity of 1628 inmates, a number that includes the associated Greene County Work Camp and Pittsfield Work ...