Inmate Population Totals from 2009

[Forevermah]

The following inmate population totals (2009) are from the IDOC website. 

For those of you who are always wondering why it takes so long for your LO to get into work release, just take a look at the totals of those ATC's at the bottom of this list, the limited amount of beds they have and the hundred's of inmates wanting to go,  and these totals are even higher now in 2011, as each year that goes by, the population is growing!!!




Inmate Population – Adult Correctional Centers

Fiscal Year 2009 Average Daily Inmate Population   

 
   
Big Muddy River Correctional Center   1,847

Centralia Correctional Center             1,539

Danville Correctional Center              1,825
   
Decatur Correctional Center                 497
   
Dixon Correctional Center                 2,144
   
Dwight Correctional Center               1,114
   
East Moline Correctional Center         1,118
   
Graham Correctional Center              1,894
   
Hill Correctional Center                     1,829
   
Illinois River Correctional Center        1,967
   
Jacksonville Correctional Center         1,513
   
Lawrence Correctional Center            2,005
   
Lincoln Correctional Center                  973
   
Logan Correctional Center                 1,899
   
Menard Correctional Center               3,547
   
Pinckneyville Correctional Center       2,256
   
Pontiac Correctional Center               1,300
   
Robinson Correctional Center            1,202
   
Shawnee Correctional Center            1,990
   
Sheridan Correctional Center               946
   
Southwestern Illinois CC                     674
   
Stateville Correctional Center           3,404
   
Tamms Correctional Center                 415
   
Taylorville Correctional Center          1,177
   
Thomson Correctional Center              138
   
Vandalia Correctional Center            1,520
   
Vienna Correctional Center              1,573
   
Western Illinois Correctional Center  2,004
   



Crossroads Adult Transition Center       317
   
Decatur Adult Transition Center            109
   
Fox Valley Adult Transition Center         121
   
Jessie 'Ma' Houston Adult
Transition Center                               112
   
North Lawndale Adult
Transition Center                                194
   
Peoria Adult Transition Center              195
   
Southern Illinois Adult
 Transition Center                                 61
   
West Side Adult Transition Center         110
   

INSTITUTION TOTALS                       45,529
   

[kp18437]

That's nuts!  They are really going to have to put something in place to ease this overcrowding.  It's hard enough to be in prison, but with these levels of inmates, it's got to be causing so many problems.  Not just the obvious ones...  Just the fact that there are so many people and the noise...  These poor guys have got to be driving each other just crazy, probably not even on purpose.  The tension level in these prisons has got to be pretty high.  Small, trivial things can escalate into huge problems.  The higher ups have really got to get their heads out of the sand and come up with a solution for this.  I can't believe that they've done nothing for so long...  Sacrificing human well being to save political careers!  It makes no sense to me.