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Pinckneyville Correctional Center
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Pinckneyville Correctional Center is a state prison located in Perry County, Illinois. Rated capacity: 2,964. Reported population: 2,087. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
2,964
Current population
2,087
Occupancy
70%
Year opened
1998
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1998
Region
Illinois
Security level
Medium
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 peersReports
- propublica29 Dec 2018
the day before. By Friday afternoon, all had walked out of the prisons where they were being held. “It feels good to be out,” Kaleb Martin said in a phone call, after leaving the Pinckneyville Correctional Center in southern Illinois, where he was met by his sister. Martin had been sentenced to six years in adult prison for biting a guard he claimed put him in a chokehold that blocked his
Data 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
- 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 (Q16888303)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Pinckneyville Correctional Center. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pinckneyville-correctional-center
"Pinckneyville Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pinckneyville-correctional-center.
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