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IL : Pontiac Prison to Stay Open After Months of Lobbying by town and guard's unions

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

" PCC is the only institution in the state to currently house condemned inmates. It also has the largest segregation unit in which many of the state?s ?worst of the worst? inmates are housed. Pontiac is the state?s only facility that provides single cells for most maximum-security inmates." Pontiac Correctional Center will remain open according to an announcement from the governor?s office and from Sen. Dan Rutherford By Sheila Shelton Pontiac Daily Leader Thu Mar 12, 2009 Pontiac, Ill. - After months of waiting, praying and hoping, an announcement on the fate of Pontiac Correctional Center has been rendered. And, for the people of Pontiac and those who work at PCC, the facility will remain open. Gov. Pat Quinn announced late this morning that Pontiac Correctional Center is not going to close, at least for now...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).