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| State closes door on Stateville prison ’roundhouse’ |
| By chicago.suntimes.com- Tina Sfondeles |
| Published: 12/01/2016 |
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State prison officials on Wednesday moved the last 36 inmates out of a Stateville Correctional Center “roundhouse” — a complex that a Chicago watchdog group dubbed “not fit for human habitation.” The maximum-security F House at Stateville in Crest Hill — which housed 348 male inmates — is officially closed, the Illinois Department of Corrections said. No other prison in the U.S. has kept roundhouses, in which cells circle a watchtower in the middle. The F House was intended for inmates who posed a threat to staff or other inmates. Read More. |
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