“Joliet Jake” Blues walks out the front gate of Joliet Correctional Center, a looming, limestone fortress built in 1858. Now, for the first time since the facility closed in 2002, tourists can ...

JOLIET —One year after pleading guilty ... which she pleaded guilty to herself —at the downstate Logan Correctional Center in Logan. According to one of her court filings, Garvey was ...

Stateville Correctional Center, which opened in 1925, is in Joliet. Total capacity is over 3,000. Total population, according to IDOC, is over 1,900. Total taxpayer cost per individual at ...