A federal judge has ruled that Illinois must move most of the inmates housed at Stateville Correctional Center by Sept. 30 because of decrepit conditions. U.S. District Judge Andrea R. Wood issued the order Friday.
FILE - The front entrance of Stateville Correctional Center is seen, Sept. 2, 2009, in Crest Hill, Ill. FILE - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks before President Joe Biden at an event with United Auto Workers at the Community Building Complex of Boone County, Nov. 9, 2023, in Belvidere, Ill. FILE - The front entrance of Stateville Correctional Center is seen, Sept. 2, 2009, in Crest Hill, Ill. FILE - The front entrance of Stateville Correctional Center is seen, Sept. 2, 2009, in Crest Hill, Ill.
That plan includes replacing the deteriorating Logan prison for women in the central Illinois city of Lincoln. The state might rebuild Logan on the Stateville campus too. “The court instead is requiring the department to accomplish what it has publicly reported and recommended it would do — namely, moving forward with closing Stateville by transferring to other facilities,” Wood wrote in an order.Illinois governor says sheriff whose deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey in her home should resignThe decision came as a result of civil rights lawyers arguing that Stateville, which opened in 1925, is too hazardous to house anyone.
Employees at the lockups would be dispersed to other facilities until the new prisons open. That has rankled the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, the union that represents most workers at the prisons.
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