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Stateville Correctional Center
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Stateville Correctional Center is a state prison located in Will County, Illinois. Rated capacity: 3,759. Reported population: 1,173. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
3,759
Current population
1,173
Occupancy
31%
Year opened
1925
Closed 1925
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1925
Region
Illinois
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
A prisoner at Stateville Correctional Center reported unsanitary conditions, including roaches crawling over him while he slept, and noted that his complaints regarding these issues were ignored by authorities.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
The facility has experienced serious incidents of violence, including a murder where a convicted murderer strangled his cellmate in his sleep, leading to new guidelines on solitary confinement.
Notable inmates
- Richard Speck1941–1991 · criminal
Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 â December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence by stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13â14, 1966.
- Michael King1982
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersReports
- propublica2 Dec 2020
ates, some of whom raised concerns early through grievances, only to later suffer serious injuries when authorities denied complaints or failed to act. In one case, a prisoner at Stateville Correctional Center filed a grievance to complain about roaches crawling over him as he slept. He also said he had extreme pain in his ear and heard constant crackling. But he said his complaints were ignored
- marshall-project24 Mar 2016
rings on how to rethink solitary. Menard Correctional Center in Illinois. Joe Shapiro/NPR After the Chicago Tribune dug into both Daczewitz’s murder and a similar killing at Stateville Correctional Center — where a double-celled convicted murderer strangled his cellmate in his sleep — Illinois prison administrators created new guidelines to prevent future casualties. They started requiring
Data completeness
84%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 (Q1338618)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Stateville Correctional Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/stateville-correctional-center
"Stateville Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/stateville-correctional-center.
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