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Decatur Correctional Center
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Decatur Correctional Center is a state prison located in Macon County, Illinois. Rated capacity: 792. Reported population: 549. Security level: Minimum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Decatur Correctional Center is a prison for women in Decatur, Illinois, United States. It is operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). It first opened on January 24, 2000. Sex offenders are not placed in Decatur Correctional. The prison, which includes the "Moms and Babies" program, has the only nursery for newborn babies in IDOC; it has eight cells in the E-Wing equipped with childcare facilities.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
792
Current population
549
Occupancy
69%
Year opened
—
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
—
Region
Illinois
Security level
Minimum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q56617161)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Decatur Correctional Center. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/decatur-correctional-center
"Decatur Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 24, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/decatur-correctional-center.
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