The Illinois River Correctional Institution is a medium-security state prison for men located in Canton,

Fulton County, Illinois Fulton County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 37,069. Its county seat is Lewistown, and the largest city is Canton. Fulton County comprises the Canton, IL Micropolitan Statistic ...

, owned and operated by the

Illinois Department of Corrections The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is the code department of the Illinois state government that operates the adult state prison system. The IDOC is led by a director appointed by the Governor of Illinois, and its headquarters are in Sp ...

. The facility was first opened in 1989, and has a working capacity of 2094.

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John Howard Association monitoring visit, 2012
Prisons in Illinois Buildings and structures in Fulton County, Illinois 1989 establishments in Illinois {{US-prison-stub