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Logan Correctional Center is an American prison in the state of Illinois for female and transgender 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.
Location | 1096 1350th Street Lincoln, Illinois, U.S. |
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Status | Open |
Capacity | 2284 |
Opened | January 1978 |
Managed by | Illinois Department of Corrections |
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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