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| Ill. wants Stateville open, Pontiac closed |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 05/06/2008 |
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ILLINOIS - The Illinois Department of Corrections is shelving plans to shutter a maximum security unit in Joliet, targeting a more than 130-year-old prison in Pontiac for closure instead. Many Pontiac Correctional Center inmates would move to a new-but-never-used maximum facility jailhouse in Thomson in northwestern Illinois' Carroll County, according to a letter from Corrections chief Roger Walker Jr., that was released Monday. Gov. Rod Blagojevich said in February he wanted to close a portion of the Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet to save millions in operating and remodeling costs at the 83-year-old prison, but the plan met with stiff resistance. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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