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Jacksonville Correctional Center
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Jacksonville Correctional Center is a state prison located in Morgan County, Illinois. Rated capacity: 1,628. Reported population: 1,008. Security level: Minimum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Jacksonville Correctional Center is a minimum-security state prison for men located in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, owned and operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections. The facility was opened in 1984 and has a capacity of 1628 inmates, a number that includes the associated Greene County Work Camp and Pittsfield Work Camp.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,628
Current population
1,008
Occupancy
62%
Year opened
1984
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1984
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
- Wikipedia category â Prisons in Illinois — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q28446395)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Jacksonville Correctional Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jacksonville-correctional-center
"Jacksonville Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jacksonville-correctional-center.
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