Employees worry about what Stateville Prison closing will mean for their jobs
CREST HILL, Ill. -- The State of Illinois has started moving inmates out of Stateville Correctional Center—which is set to close over concerns about poor living conditions there.But plans to demolish the prison and build a new one at the existing Crest Hill location now have some prison workers worried for their future.
This comes as a judge ordered the roughly 420 inmates be moved out by the end of next month due to so-called hazardous conditions.'Is it old? Does it need repairs? Yes,' said Washington. 'But it's not decrepit.'But former inmates see the prison's upkeep differently.'These conditions are pure torture,' Bernard McKinley, a former Stateville inmate, said in July. 'There's no other way to say it about it.
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