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| Illinois prisons dealing with backup power needs, rowdy inmate behavior during outages |
| By greenfieldreporter.com |
| Published: 09/03/2014 |
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — Illinois Department of Corrections officials have asked the state's correctional facilities to retest emergency power equipment after an Aug. 20 power outage at Vandalia Correctional Center. One prisoner at the minimum-security facility attacked a guard and others became unruly during a 92-minute blackout caused by a storm, the Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises newspapers reported. Two separate prison power outages caused similar upheaval among inmates at Vienna Correctional Center in January and East Moline Correction Center in 2012. All of the state's prison facilities have backup generators, except Vandalia and a Peoria halfway house, according to the state Department of Corrections. Read More. |
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