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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 .
Cathleen Mae Webb (also known as Cathleen Crowell Webb) [1] was an Illinois woman, who, in 1985, recanted her testimony from an earlier rape case to free an innocent man. The convicted man, Gary Dotson , was released and later exonerated in the first celebrated case involving DNA evidence .
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 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 ...
While on duty, Bluew strangled his pregnant girlfriend, Jennifer Webb, to death. Bluew was convicted of first-degree murder, assault causing a miscarriage, and having a firearm in a felony, and was given the mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. [107] 14 July 2011: Teddie Whitefield 20 January 2015: Wichita Falls Police ...
An inmate who shot and killed a kitchen worker at a Georgia prison before fatally shooting himself had a personal relationship with the woman, a prison official said Monday. The shooting early ...
The Georgia Department of Corrections in a statement said it's investigating the deaths at Smith State Prison in rural southeast Georgia. The agency provided few immediate details, including how ...