Logan Correctional Center Explained

Prison Name:	Logan Correctional Center
Location:	1096 1350th Street Lincoln, Illinois, U.S.
Status:	Open
Capacity:	2284
Opened:	January 1978

Logan Correctional Center is an American prison in the state of Illinois for female and transgender https://news.wttw.com/2019/04/03/idoc-transfers-another-transgender-inmate-womens-prison offenders in Broadwell Township, Logan County, Illinois, near Lincoln and 30miles north of Springfield. The 150acres prison opened in January 1978. A 57acres plot of fenced land houses general population prisoners.^[1] It lies just south of the Lincoln Correctional Center, a facility for male offenders.

Until mid-2000, Illinois had coed prisons, housing both male and female inmates in the same prison.^[2] The reason for making Logan Correctional Center a coed prison in 1987 was a fast-growing prison population.^[3] When it ended in 2000 it was declared an administrative burden, at the time Logan was supposed to become an all-male prison.^[2]

Notable inmates

• Nicole Abusharif – convicted of the 2007 murder of her domestic partner, Rebecca Klein.^[4]
• Tanishia Covington - perpetrator of the 2017 Chicago torture incident hate crime^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• Marni K. Yang - Charged and found guilty of murdering Shaun Gayle’s girlfriend, Rhoni Reuter.^[7]
• Christine Roush - Found guilty of murdering her birth mother Ann Poehlman, sentenced to 40 years. Featured on Snapped series 28.^[8]
• Sarah Kolb - one of the murderers of Adrianne Reynolds.

Conditions

The conditions of the Logan Correctional Center have been found to be "untenable" based on a study funded by the Department of Justice in November 2016.^[9]

External links

• Logan Correctional Center

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Notes and References

1. "Logan Correctional Center." Illinois Department of Corrections. Retrieved on October 12, 2010. "1096 1350th Street P.O. Box 1000 Lincoln, Il 62656"
2. "All-male Prison Changing To Women's Facility." Chicago Tribune. August 25, 2000.
3. Johnson, Dirk, "WOMEN BLEND IN WITH MEN AT ILLINOIS PRISON." The New York Times. June 1, 1987.
4. Web site: State of Illinois | DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS | Inmate Search Results. www.idoc.state.il.us.
5. Web site: State of Illinois | DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS | Inmate Search Results. www.idoc.state.il.us.
6. Web site: SUH, CATHERINE Inmate K00995: Illinois Prisons (DOC). bailbondcity.com. 2016-11-28.
7. Web site: Offenders. www2.illinois.gov.
8. Web site: State of Illinois | DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS | Inmate Search Results. www.idoc.state.il.us.
9. News: Conditions at state's sole women's prison 'untenable': study. Coen. Jeff. chicagotribune.com. 2016-11-28.