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Stateville is a maximum security prison for men in Crest Hill, Illinois, near Chicago. It opened in 1925 and was the site of executions by electrocution and lethal injection until 1998.
22 wrz 2024 · 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.
17 wrz 2024 · Stateville Correctional Center, near Joliet, Illinois, is set to be emptied by the end of September due to its deteriorating conditions. Men incarcerated there share their experiences, hopes and fears about the closure and the future of their education and community.
1 dzień temu · 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)
30 wrz 2024 · For more than a month, the Illinois Department of Corrections has been transferring hundreds of Stateville inmates to prisons around Illinois, leaving the storied maximum security facility in Crest Hill, near Joliet, almost deserted.
15 mar 2024 · Gov. Pritzker announces $900 million plan to demolish and reconstruct Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum-security state prison built in 1925. The new facility will take three to five years to design and construct, while inmates will be temporarily relocated.
15 mar 2024 · “Based on assessments of each facility and land availability, it is anticipated that Stateville will be temporarily closed and demolished, with a new facility to be built on its grounds,” according the news release from the governor’s office. The entrance to Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill is shown in this file photo.
