CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Governor Pritzker revealed what must be done if two state prisons are knocked down and rebuilt.
At an unrelated event on Monday, Pritzker responded to a question about plans to move prisoners under his proposal to spend $900 million over the next five years to knock down Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum-security men’s facility near Joliet, and the women’s Logan Correctional Center, 30 miles north of Springfield and then rebuild them.
Although the logistics are still being discussed, the governor said obviously prisoners at both facilities will need to be moved.
“People have said, ‘how on earth could you do that?’ Well, you may know that we have about 10,000 fewer prisoners in our corrections system today than we did five years ago…It’s been decompressed, I would argue, and so there is the ability for us to move people to other facilities,” Pritzker said.
The governor also said the state plans to keep all corrections officers, and those officers will stay on duty during the possible transition from one facility to another.
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