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IL: Joliet takes first steps to rehabilitate prison as a park

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Tourist trap? Joliet takes first steps to rehabilitate prison as a park By Steve Schmadeke | Tribune reporter July 18, 2009 For more than a century, the Joliet Correctional Center was known as one of the nation's toughest prisons, a place where two inmates were squeezed into 4-foot-wide cells, where tuberculosis deaths were not uncommon and where prisoners made do with slop buckets until indoor plumbing arrived in the late 1940s. Locals recall locking their doors as they drove down Collins Street past the 25-foot-tall limestone walls surrounded by barbed wire. The prison closed in 2002, but lifelong Joliet resident Martha Miller, 41, vividly remembers her parents keeping her in line with the phrase, "There's plenty of space left at Collins Street...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 19, 2009 (boomark / email).