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When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...
When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.
FILE - Stateville Correctional Center, a historic but dilapidated prison set to close and a replacement built, can be seen, Sept. 16, 2024, in Crest Hill, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) By JOHN O'CONNOR ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are ...