GREENE COUNTY Work Camp

[AnglBaby]

Greene County Work Camp
Glen Austin, Warden

Facility Data
Greene County Work Camp
Opened: March 1993
Minimum Security Adult Male
*Population Greene County Work Camp: 183
 

*As of 11/30/2011. Reflects bed space capacity analysis as outlined in the January 1, 2012 Quarterly Report to the Legislature. 
Jacksonville Correctional Center is the parent institution for Greene County Work Camp

Visiting Hours
 
IDOC Visitation Rules and Information—please review before visiting
 
Visitors to any correctional facility will be required to produce photo identification and verification of date of birth. Please be sure to bring 2 forms of identification with you; these would include a current photo ID such as a driver’s license, a state ID card, government ID card, military ID/driver’s license, or acceptable documentation of non-U.S. citizenship including a current Passport, or Visa, documentation must contain the visitor’s date of birth. Expired forms of identification will not be accepted. Visitors will also be required to provide vehicle information and other pertinent data, such as government identification, official credentials, attorney registration, and or law student certification.

Visitation at the Greene County Work Camp will be by appointment only Monday through Friday.  Offenders must submit a visit request form (JAC 0090) at least one week prior to the requested visit.  No scheduling will be necessary for Saturday, Sunday or holiday visits.  Visitation hours at the camp will be from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.  All visits must arrive 1 hour prior to the end of visiting time.

Facility Address

Physical Address:

US 67 South

Roodhouse, IL 62082

 

Business Mail:
2268 East Morton Avenue
Jacksonville, IL 62650

 

Inmate Mail:

Inmate Name & IDOC#

2268 East Morton Avenue
Jacksonville, IL 62650


Phone: (217) 374-2177

Facility Information
The Greene County Work camp originally opened in March 1993 as the Greene County Impact Incarceration Program, a military-style boot camp, which closed in October 2002. In February 2004, the facility reopened as a work camp equipped to house up to 200 offenders who must meet stringent criteria.

 

The work crew program at Greene County has continued to grow and cover numerous requests throughout the community.  Greene County also offers Career Tech classes to better prepare offenders for reintegration into society.

 

Inmate Programs

 

Vocational:

·         Career Tech

 

Volunteer Services:

·         Religious

 

Other:

·         Community Work Crews

·         Individual Counseling

http://www2.illinois.gov/idoc/facilities/Pages/GreeneCountyWorkCamp.aspx


Posted by Angelbaby
*This work camp only holds about 100-175 inmates so the visiting room is quite small. There were 7 tables total. It did not fill up though and I visited on a Saturday. When you go to visit you will pull up into a small parking lot and a officer will see you pulling in. They will then come out, write down the type of car you have, license plate number, and drivers license information. They will then search your car. Once this has been done they will walk you to a steel fenced gate in which they came out of and you will then be buzzed in. You will then walk straight into the visiting room. Where you check in and get your locker is all in the same room. I thought this was a lot less intimadating since you don't have to go thru room after room to get to the visiting room and be escorated everywhere. They do have vending machines with food, but it isn't very good and I didn't think the choices in frozen food were that great. There is a mediator watching everyone, but when there back was turned we stole an extra kiss or two. I got to kiss my man about 6 times to say goodbye, I couldn't get enough, and the officers didn't seem to mind either.

This is about the extent of information I have so far, but if anyone has any questions feel free to ask me and I will try to help in anyway I can.


NOTE NEW INFORMATION:

Visiting Hours seemed to have changed a bit.. Monday-Friday you have to schedule your visit a week in advance...Saturday & Sunday are unscheduled...The hours state 9:00-3:00 but they have always made me leave at 2:30. The vending machine company was changed so now some things are more expensive and some are cheaper...bottle of soda $1.45, cheesburger $4.25...The vending card costs $5.00...

[Aren]

my man was in GCWC before moving on to work release. They treated him good, and I like it, except this one bitchy guard everytime I visited. Overall, he was satisfied with their treatment and everything. merrycsanta

[AnglBaby]

I betcha I know exaclty what guard you are talking about since there were only 2 females . . .I like the blonde she was so nice to me. We used to always talk engagements rings and what not and she would hassle my mana bout getting me a big fat diamond :) . . .you are talking about the one with the short hair, right? She used to always search me like it was going out of style . . . I swear, like I would actually try and take a bomb in or soemthing . . .I don't miss that, but I like how you could stay as long as you wanted. In the work release center where my man is right now you are only supposed to visit for an hour. Some of the C.O's don't care and let you stay as long as you like, but some of them are sticklers and kick you out right on the minute . . .thank god it's only like a 20 min drive for me otherwise we would have problems!

[Aren]

Ya, the blonde's nice. She always let me and Kev kiss all we want, as long as we weren't goin at it like there's no tomorrow. The other one, the one with short brown hair, would freak out if our faces were an inch away from each other.

[mstjo]

Visiting Hours seemed to have changed a bit.. Monday-Friday you have to schedule your visit a week in advance...Saturday & Sunday are unscheduled...The hours state 9:00-3:00 but they have always made me leave at 2:30. The vending machine company was changed so now some things are more expensive and some are cheaper...bottle of soda $1.45, cheesburger $4.25...The vending card costs $5.00...

[mstjo]

This information is a little late...The warden has changed the address to GCWC.  The address that we are asked to use now is:

Greene County Work Camp
2268 East Morton Avenue
Jacksonville, IL 62650

Along with my l/o's  DOC# I also put his bed number on the envelope.  Not sure if its necessary but my l/o seemed to think it would help.

[Marks_guy]

Thanks for the update!

[momofboys]

im soooo new to this, so can someone tell me how long it takes before my husband can make phone calls from GCWC??

[Forevermah]

im soooo new to this, so can someone tell me how long it takes before my husband can make phone calls from GCWC??

Welcome to IPT. Once his phone and visiting lists are approved, which could take a couple weeks, sometimes sooner, sometimes longer, he will be able to call.

If you haven't gone to our TEN STEPS TO UNDERSTANDING IDOC PROCEUDRES here:

http://www.illinoisprisontalk.org/index.php/topic,1513.0.html


I suggest you do and many of your answers maybe answered!  Take your time and look around, probably any questions you can think to ask, have been answered here on IPT, using the search feature on the front page of IPT helps also!

[rottiemama2003]

im soooo new to this, so can someone tell me how long it takes before my husband can make phone calls from GCWC??

I agree with Forevermah...

  to the family

[momofboys]

Thanks everyone ill take a look at it today! hopefully i can get answers....
1 more ? does anyone know if this Boot Camp is 90 days only and then you are released, ive heard alot of people saying this??

[Forevermah]

Thanks everyone ill take a look at it today! hopefully i can get answers....
1 more ? does anyone know if this Boot Camp is 90 days only and then you are released, ive heard alot of people saying this??

The bootcamps can be between 120-180 days, depending on how your inmate goes through the program, if he misses any days, etc. 120 days is the minimum, 180 days maximum.

Do not know where you heard 90, but that is just not true.

This is straight from the IDOC website:


The Illinois Department of Corrections operates two adult boot camps and one juvenile camp. The adult camps are located at the DuQuoin State Fairground in Perry County, and at Dixon Springs, at the edge of the Shawnee National Forest in deep southern Illinois. The juvenile camp is located in Murphysboro. Adult inmates must volunteer before the judge and the placement recommendation by the judge is reviewed when the inmate is received at Corrections. Corrections administrators determine who goes to the juvenile camp. Adults may not have been convicted of a serious crime, must be between the ages of 18-35 and not have been sentenced to Corrections more than twice. They cannot have a sentence of more than 8 years. Corrections retains the right to determine who goes to boot camp based on the nature of the crime and whether the inmate can take the regimentation both physically and mentally. The camp is 120-days in length. Inmates may not have visitors for 30 days, and then only immediate family. They are also restricted from phone calls for a period of time. Inmates may possess only what Corrections gives them.

[momofboys]

i have heard from the Probation officer and from a friend who had a brother who went to boot camp and was out in 90 days and he knew it was 90 days!
And  another question the profile of my husband is wrong.... How do we get that fixed!

[Forevermah]

i have heard from the Probation officer and from a friend who had a brother who went to boot camp and was out in 90 days and he knew it was 90 days!
And  another question the profile of my husband is wrong.... how do we get that fixed!

Well, BC is never 90 days, so I am not sure what they are telling him or you, but it's not true.  Once they get to bc, their time starts and the shortest time is 120 days.

Maybe you are talking about CC bootcamp, but not IDOC.

If his profile is wrong, you might want to call his counselor and talk to them about this, if they can't help, it all depends on what is wrong with it, you might have to call Springfield.


I have to ask you, why are you posting about BC in a work camp topic?  Is your husband in Greene County Work Camp or waiting to go to bootcamp?

[Angela]

i have heard from the Probation officer and from a friend who had a brother who went to boot camp and was out in 90 days and he knew it was 90 days!
And  another question the profile of my husband is wrong.... How do we get that fixed!

IMPOSSIBLE  on the 90 days !!!!! 120 days AT Least. Someone has misinformed you...sorry.

[momofboys]

All i know is he is at Greene County, and i have been talking to his PO for some time now and thats what she thinks, I know nothing about any of this?? this is his 1st time! and i have not heard from him at all. He has been at 4 different places since aug 9th! So i am totally lost in the dark!

[Angela]

So sorry you are going through this      . You are in our prayers.

[Forevermah]

All i know is he is at Greene County, and i have been talking to his PO for some time now and thats what she thinks, I know nothing about any of this?? this is his 1st time! and i have not heard from him at all. He has been at 4 different places since aug 9th! So i am totally lost in the dark!

Greene County is a work camp not a boot camp, and they serve the regular amount of time in there, whatever is showing on his IDOC profile page is what he has to serve. They don't get any time off for being in a work camp.  The bootcamps are a whole different story.

Is he in on a parole violation waiting to talk to the PRB?

[momofboys]

im not sure what that means!

[Forevermah]

im not sure what that means!

Was your inmate on parole and picked up for a violation and is he waiting to see the Parole Board???    Is this his first time in, how much time did he get?

[momofboys]

he was taken right from his court date! i dont know much about anything else, i dont know the system at all!

[momofboys]

he only got 1 yr!

[Forevermah]

he only got 1 yr!

If he got one year he will do 6 months time,there is  no good time anymore.

[Angela]

 

[bmonska]

Wondering if anyone knows the direct phone number to GCWC off hand? Also, anyone who has been there, is it easily found off of Rt. 67? Hubby said he doesn't even think there is a walmart in Roodhouse, IL where the WC is at. He said it looks like a ghost town. Just wondering if it's difficult to find or is it situated in an obvious location? 

[Forevermah]

Wondering if anyone knows the direct phone number to GCWC off hand? Also, anyone who has been there, is it easily found off of Rt. 67? Hubby said he doesn't even think there is a walmart in Roodhouse, IL where the WC is at. He said it looks like a ghost town. Just wondering if it's difficult to find or is it situated in an obvious location? 

Try this   217−374−2177

[bmonska]

  appreciate it!

[momofboys]

my husband is there! it is really easy to find, just right out side the town! on the left hand side it has a wooden sign! 2 extrances.... pull in park and buzz at the gate! any other questions i will try and help you out!

[bmonska]

I think you were replying to my previous question. Thanks for the response. I got it figured out and tomorrow I pick him up from Jville so I"m does with the GCWC journey! Thanks!

[momofboys]

Your welcome, so there are sending them back to Jacksonville for release?!

[bmonska]

Yes. They release inmates from the parent prison so when your lo is released, he will be taken to Jville the day before to sign all his paper work and then back to GCWC. Then the release day they drive them back over to Jville for release at 9am. They don't release from the works camps specifically. Pittsfield is one of Jville's work camps also. So anyone being released who is there goes through the same process of being released from jville. It works for me since it takes off about 30 minutes of the drive!

[TimeStandsStill]

Good luck with everything B!  It won't be long now....   

[momofboys]

Good to know cause my husband and  I were being told different things! and i agree Jville is knocking 30 min off our drive time! that does help.... Thanks again and  enjoy life!

[bluangel34]

Hello all.  My l/o has been in IDOC since January 10, 2012.  He was in Stateville for 9 days then transferred to Jacksonville.  He was there for about 1 month and then transferred to GCWC.  I recently went to visit him (5 hour drive, thank goodness I have family by Springfield) 4 days in a row!!!!  I absolutely loved seeing him!!  BUT, the one officer that the other couple of posts were talking about really made me feel uncomfortable and actually yelled at me for asking to use the restroom before my 1 1/2 hour drive when our visit was over.  We had already said our goodbyes and she said that I can use the restroom if I didn't try to say goodbye to him again......Well, when I left, my l/o was sitting in the hallway waiting to be let back out and he said she was talking all sorts of nasty things about me.  I have never had a problem with visiting him anywhere.  She wouldn't stop staring at us no matter where she was in the room.  We are from the Chicago area and I've visited him a couple times in Cook Co and when he was in Jacksonville I went and saw him and everyone has always been so nice.  This woman was VERY disrespectful.  I was born and raised in S'field and I know how nice people are down there.  Everyone else was very nice, the men officers walked me to and from the gate and called me ma'am, just made me feel comfortable.  NOT her!!!  So, I reported it on the site where you can email different issues.  I sent that email on Tuesday.  Last night (Wednesday) she called my l/o out into the hallway and said to him, "Be sure to thank your loved one for sending that email because Springfield called me and thanked me for doing such a good job and to keep up the good work, and next time she comes to visit she should focus on the visit and not everyone else around the room." 

This was an issue that I had with her.  To me, it was very childish and uncalled for that she went to him.  I am assuming she got repremanded and that is the reason for saying that to him.  Please, if there is anyone else that has had problems with this officer, send me an email with the date and details.  [edited out by admin - please PM ]    She needs to be put in her place.  My l/o told me, before the visit, that she sits outside the door on the nightshift and they aren't even allowed to talk or make a sound, he said that she is a very miserable person and takes it out on them.  THat does not sit well with me.