Logan Correctional Center is an

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prison for female offenders in Broadwell Township,

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, near

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and north of

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. The prison opened in January 1978. A plot of fenced land houses general population prisoners. It lies just south of the

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, a facility for male offenders. Until mid-2000 Illinois had coed prisons, housing both male and female inmates in the same prison.All-male Prison Changing To Women's Facility
" ''

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''. August 25, 2000. The reason for making Logan Correctional Center a coed prison in 1987 was a fast-growing prison population. When it ended in 2000 it was declared an administrative burden, at the time Logan was supposed to become an all-male prison.

Notable inmates

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– convicted of the 2007 murder of her domestic partner, Rebecca Klein. * Tanishia Covington - perpetrator of the

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hate crime *Catherine Suh - charged and found guilty of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and bribery, for the 1993 murder of her boyfriend Robert O'Dubaine. Sentenced to life in prison. *Marni K. Yang - Charged and found guilty of murdering

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’s girlfriend, Rhoni Reuter. *Christine Roush - Found guilty of murdering her birth mother Ann Poehlman, sentenced to 40 years. Featured on

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series 28.

Conditions

The conditions of the Logan Correctional Center have been found to be "untenable" based on a study funded by the

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in November 2016.

References

External links

Logan Correctional Center
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