Logan Correctional Center is an American prison in the state of

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for female and transgende

offenders in Broadwell Township, Logan County, Illinois, Broadwell Township,

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, near

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and north of Springfield. The prison opened in January 1978. A plot of fenced land houses general population prisoners. 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.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

* Nicole Abusharif – convicted of the 2007 murder of her domestic partner, Rebecca Klein. * Tanishia Covington - perpetrator of the 2017 Chicago torture incident 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 Shaun Gayle’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. * 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

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in November 2016.

References

External links

Logan Correctional Center
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