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Location | 1096 1350th Street Lincoln, Illinois |
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Status | open |
Capacity | 2284 |
Opened | January 1978 |
Managed by | Illinois Department of Corrections |
Logan Correctional Center is an Illinois Department of Corrections prison for female and transgender [1] offenders in Broadwell Township, Logan County, Illinois, near Lincoln and 30 miles (48 km) north of Springfield. The 150-acre (61 ha) prison opened in January 1978. A 57-acre (23 ha) plot of fenced land houses general population prisoners. [1] It lies just south of the Lincoln Correctional Center, a facility for male offenders.
Until mid-2000 Illinois had coed prisons, housing both male and female inmates in the same prison. [2] The reason for making Logan Correctional Center a coed prison in 1987 was a fast-growing prison population. [3] When it ended in 2000 it was declared an administrative burden, at the time Logan was supposed to become an all-male prison. [2]
The conditions of the Logan Correctional Center have been found to be "untenable" based on a study funded by the Department of Justice in November 2016. [9]
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Location | 1096 1350th Street Lincoln, Illinois |
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Status | open |
Capacity | 2284 |
Opened | January 1978 |
Managed by | Illinois Department of Corrections |
Logan Correctional Center is an Illinois Department of Corrections prison for female and transgender [1] offenders in Broadwell Township, Logan County, Illinois, near Lincoln and 30 miles (48 km) north of Springfield. The 150-acre (61 ha) prison opened in January 1978. A 57-acre (23 ha) plot of fenced land houses general population prisoners. [1] It lies just south of the Lincoln Correctional Center, a facility for male offenders.
Until mid-2000 Illinois had coed prisons, housing both male and female inmates in the same prison. [2] The reason for making Logan Correctional Center a coed prison in 1987 was a fast-growing prison population. [3] When it ended in 2000 it was declared an administrative burden, at the time Logan was supposed to become an all-male prison. [2]
The conditions of the Logan Correctional Center have been found to be "untenable" based on a study funded by the Department of Justice in November 2016. [9]