SPRINGFIELD Citing overcrowding at Illinois' maximum-securityprisons, Gov. Thompson yesterday proposed building three 750-inmatepenitentiaries.
Under the governor's plan, construction would begin on onefacility each year for three years at a cost of about $41 millioneach. He doubted that any of the three new prisons would be built inCook County.
A Corrections Department report released last month said thestate's oldest maximum-security penitentiaries - Joliet, Stateville,Pontiac and Menard - are "dangerously overcrowded."
"They are the places where violent acts are occurring and wherethey are likely to continue to occur, not because of bad …
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