Admission and release statistics, 1933-1952.

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Admission and release statistics, 1933-1952.

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Statistics include daily and monthly admission and discharge counts. Admission statistics record total inmate population and prisoners received from courts; returned on writs from parole; escaped; transferred to Joliet, Pontiac, and the Chester State Hospital; received for execution; received from Illinois Security Hospital (July 1934- ); and returned from parole with new sentences. Discharge statistics record prisoners paroled; pardoned; died; out on writs; died on parole; sentences commuted; sentences expired; escaped; and transferred to Joliet, Pontiac; and Chester State Hospital.

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Illinois. Dept. of Corrections.

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Illinois State Penitentiary (Joliet, Ill.)

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The first state penitentiary, authorized by the General Assembly (1827) and constructed in Alton (completed 1831) was managed by a warden overseen by four inspectors. A new penitentiary at Joliet was authorized (1857) and built by Alton convicts (completed 1860) who were transferred to the new prison while the Alton site became a Civil War military prison. Although the warden oversaw Joliet prison operations, it was not until 1867 that the legislature created three Penitentiary Commissioners to ...

Chester State Hospital (Ill.)

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Illinois State Penitentiary. Menard Branch.

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The Southern Illinois Penitentiary at Chester (authorized 1877) was overseen by a three member Board of Commissioners, appointed by the Governor to advice the warden and investiage operations. In 1889, the Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals was authorized to be built on the penitentiary grounds under the oversight of the penitentiary commissioners. Under the Civil Administrative Code of 1917, the Southern Illinois Penitentiary was placed under the Department of Public Welfare but maintained it...

Illinois State Penitentiary at Pontiac.

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Illinois Security Hospital.

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