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Logan Correctional Center is a state prison located in Logan County, Illinois. Rated capacity: 2,284. Reported population: 1,510. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Logan Correctional Center is an American prison in the state of Illinois for female 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. It lies just south of the Lincoln Correctional Center, a facility for male offenders. Until mid-2000, Illinois had coed prisons, housing both male and female inmates in the same prison.
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Capacity
2,284
Current population
1,510
Occupancy
66%
Year opened
1978
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1978
Region
Illinois
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
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This facility scores 3. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 1 points above national average.
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was no joy attached to its delivery — only dark memories of the violent, degrading strip search that I and hundreds of other women endured as part of a cadet training exercise at Logan Correctional Center. Life Inside Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal justice system. Sign up to receive “Life Inside” emailed to you every week. Related Stories The search took place on the
with the grievance system and said they made changes to improve tracking. Hokyoung Kim for ProPublica Maggie Burke, a former state corrections official who retired as warden of Logan Correctional Center in 2017, said grievances routinely disappeared. “If it was just an occasional ‘my grievance disappeared,’ ... I would think that it was someone who was exaggerating,” she said, adding, “But it
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World Prisons. (2026). Logan Correctional Center. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/logan-correctional-center
"Logan Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/logan-correctional-center.
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title = {Logan Correctional Center},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/logan-correctional-center},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
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