Stateville Correctional Center

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The Stateville Correctional Center

The Stateville Correctional Center is a state prison in the US state of Illinois . It holds the highest security standards and is located in Crest Hill .

history

It was inaugurated in 1925. Stateville was laid out for 1,506 prisoners. According to the ideas of the philosopher and prison reformer Jeremy Bentham, parts of the prison were laid out as a panopticon .

Execution site

The Stateville Correctional Center was one of three prisons in Illinois to use the electric chair to execute. Thirteen executions took place between 1928 and 1962.

After the electric chair was replaced by lethal injection, Stateville was the only place of execution in Illinois until 1998. Today it has been replaced by the Tamms Correctional Center .

In March 2011, Governor Pat Quinn signed law abolishing the death penalty in Illinois.

Current usage

Today, an average of 3500 prisoners are housed. The average cost of a prisoner is $ 32,000 per year.

Stateville is north of Joliet, Illinois , where the Joliet Correctional Center was operated until 2002 .

additional

Nathan Leopold at the Stateville Correctional Center, 1931
  • The murderers Nathan Leopold Junior (1904-1971) and Richard Loeb (1905-1936) sat in Stateville after a stay in Joliet. Loeb was later killed by a fellow inmate, and Leopold was released after 33 years in prison.
  • From the 1940s to the 1960s, the US Army tested malaria pathogens on prisoners who, in return, received positive entries on their records.
  • MSNBC put out a series about the Stateville Correctional Center called Lockup.
  • Scenes from the film Natural Born Killers were shot in Stateville.
  • Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed in Stateville.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " Crest Hill city, IL ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note ." US Census Bureau . Retrieved July 10, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / factfinder.census.gov
  2. ^ First man to die in Illinois' electric chair
  3. ↑ http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/facilities/information.asp?instchoice=sta
  4. ↑ Historian examines US ethics in Nuremberg Medical Trial tactics, Andrew Ivy, a medical researcher and vice president of the University of Illinois at Chicago, testifies for the prosecution at the 1946 Nuremberg Medical Trial. . In: Larry Bernard . Retrieved September 5, 2006.

Coordinates: 41 ° 34 '43.6 "  N , 88 ° 5' 38.7"  W.