DWIGHT, Ill. — Nature has taken over the vacated Dwight Correctional Center, where a thin forest of spindly trees covers a 160-acre campus that old photos show once featured well-tended lawns and ...

DWIGHT — Prison guards at Dwight Correctional Center and other state facilities slated for closure this summer received layoff notices this week even though the sites’ fate is far from settled. “It’s ...

DWIGHT, Ill. (AP) — One year after it closed, the future of the former Dwight Correctional Center remains uncertain. The facility was shuttered in 2013 as a cost-cutting measure.

DWIGHT — A community meeting in Dwight on Monday will be the next in a series of steps to formulate a plan to save the Dwight Correctional Center from closure. “It’s important that the whole community ...

SPRINGFIELD — One of the state's newly shuttered prisons could see new life as a holding facility for county-level prisoners under a proposal backed by central Illinois officials. Livingston County ...

SPRINGFIELD — A prison watchdog group is calling on Gov. Pat Quinn to cancel plans to close the state’s maximum-security prison for women in Dwight. The Chicago-based John Howard Association issued a ...

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn’s decision to move forward with the closure of the all-female Dwight Correctional Center will jumpstart what amounts to a massive game of musical chairs for some of the ...

DWIGHT, Ill. — Nature has taken over the vacated Dwight Correctional Center, where a thin forest of spindly trees covers a 160-acre campus that old photos show once featured well-tended lawns and ...

The former Dwight Correctional Center sits on 160 acres on March 6, 2025 in Dwight. It includes dozens of buildings, many constructed in the French Norman style, and built with yellow brick and stone.