The Vienna Correctional Institution is a minimum-security state prison for men located in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

, Johnson County, Illinois, 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 1965, and has a working capacity of 1963. The facility is adjacent to the state's

Shawnee Correctional Center The Shawnee Correctional Center is a medium-security state prison for men located in Vienna, Illinois, Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois, owned and operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections. The facility was first opened in 1984, and ha ...

. In 1979 it became the first such institution to become accredited by the American Correctional Association. In May 2015 the non-profit prison watchdog John Howard Association documented chronic unsafe and unclean conditions in the facility, allegations that supported an inmates' class-action suit seeking to address neglect and overcrowding.

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