The last men incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center have been transferred out of the aging facility as of Monday, bringing the 100-year-old prison to a close, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.
In letters to WTTW News, men said they were told they’d be in the facility’s medical unit for two to four months after most of the prison’s population was transferred out in September. Instead, they were inside for six months held in “third-world conditions,” as one man described: segregation with no access to recreational activities, the law library, educational programs or time in the chapel.
Disability rights group Equip for Equality filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to immediately transfer the men out of the facility a little over a week ago…