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  2. List of people executed in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.

  3. Pontiac Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    Opened. 1871. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. Pontiac Correctional Center, established in June 1871, is an Illinois Department of Corrections maximum security prison (Level 1) for adult males in Pontiac, Illinois. The prison also has a medium security unit that houses medium to minimum security inmates and is classified as Level 3.

  4. Illinois Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    Illinois Department of Corrections. 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. [ 4]

  5. Cook County Jail in Chicago under fire for inmate deaths ...

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    The most recent comprehensive report on Cook County Jail inmate mortality rates, published in 2007 in the Journal of Urban Health, found that from 1995 to 2004, 178 inmates died in the jail, an ...

  6. Menard Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    Opened. 1878. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. Menard Correctional Center, known prior to 1970 as Southern Illinois Penitentiary, is an Illinois state prison located in the town of Chester in Randolph County, Illinois. It houses maximum-security and high-medium-security adult males. The average daily population as of 2007 was 3,410.

  7. Why has Illinois released hundreds of prison inmates ... - AOL

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    Michelle L. Laux was 31 when she was found beaten to death along a rural Clinton County road in 1993. One of the men convicted in her death, Robert Nail, was given an 80-year prison sentence that ...

  8. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 83 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.

  9. Stateville Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    Security class. Maximum. Capacity. 4,134. Opened. 1925. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. 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 .