Joliet Correctional Center
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Photo by Joseph Gage from USA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Photo by Joseph Gage from USA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Photo by Joseph Gage from USA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Photo by Joseph Gage from USA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Photo by Joseph Gage from USA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Photo by Joseph Gage from USA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Photo by Joseph Gage from USA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Photo by Joseph Gage from USA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Background
Joliet Correctional Center (originally known as Illinois State Penitentiary, colloquially as Joliet Prison, Joliet Penitentiary, the Old Joliet Prison, and the Collins Street Prison) is a former prison in Joliet, Illinois, United States, which operated from 1858 to 2002. Numerous films and television productions have used the prison as a setting or filming location. In the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, character Jake Blues is released from the prison at the beginning of the movie (hence his nickname "Joliet Jake"). Footage of the prison is used for the exterior shots for the Illinois "state prison" in the 1949 film White Heat, and for the location of the first and second season of the series Prison Break, and the 2006 film Let's Go to Prison. In 2018, the decommissioned prison was opened to guided tours.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1858
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Illinois Department of Corrections
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1858
Region
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Security level
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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
Data completeness
24%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.