The Shawnee Correctional Center is a medium-security state prison for men located in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

Johnson County, Illinois Johnson County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it has a population of 13,308. Its county seat is Vienna, Illinois, Vienna. It is located in the southern ...

, 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 ...

. The facility was first opened in 1984, and has a working capacity of 2147. The facility is adjacent to the state's

Vienna Correctional Center The Vienna Correctional Institution is a minimum-security state prison for men located in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois, owned and operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections. The facility was first opened in 1965 and has a working cap ...

Notable inmates

* Tesfaye Cooper - perpetrator of the 2017 Chicago torture incident hate crime * Larry Bright - serial killer who murdered eight women

References

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