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	Joliet, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joliet was first settled as a town in 1834 and originally bore the name Juliet [1].
		Joliet Catholic Academy was formed in 1991 as a merger between the city's all-boys and all-girls Catholic high schools, Joliet Catholic High School and St.
		Joliet Catholic is known primarily for its football prowess.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joliet,_Illinois (1062 words)

	Encyclopedia: Joliet, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Joliet was first settled as a town in 1834 and originally bore the name Juliet.
		Joliet Prison was a prison in Joliet, Illinois, United States from 1858 to 2002.
		Joliet Catholic Academy was formed in 1991 as a merger between the city's all-boys and all-girls Catholic high schools, Joliet Catholic High School and St. Francis Academy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Joliet,-Illinois (5898 words)

	Learn more about Prison in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As of 2003, the United States prison population is the world's largest in absolute numbers according to available statistics.
		The argument for privatization stresses cost reduction, whereas the arguments against it focus on standards of care, and the question of whether a market economy for prisons might not also lead to a market demand for prisoners (that is, a strong lobby for ever-tougher sentencing to satisfy the need for cheap labor).
		Prisons may outsource medical care to private companies such as Correctional Medical Services, which, according to Hylton's research, try to minimize the amount of care given to prisoners in order to maximize profits.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/pr/prison.html (560 words)

	Joliet Prison -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Both criminal and military prisoners were kept there during the (A war between factions in the same country) Civil War.
		From the (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s the prison worked more as a reception and classification center for northern Illinois, holding prisoners for less than a month and processing over 20,000 a year.
		Joliet Correctional Center closed as a holding prison in February 2002.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joliet_prison.htm (379 words)

	Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society: Menard: Development of a Nineteenth-Century Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prison labor was used in the construction of its original buildings and walls, as well as in the stone quarries adjacent to facility and the numerous workshops.
		The prison was originally established to confine both male and female prisoners, with the women's prison to be surrounded by a high stone wall.
		Prisoner labor was used by the Pettengill Boot and Shoe Company in the brick building constructed as the temporary cell house, which had another floor "added" by excavating a basement level.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3945/is_200310/ai_n9312385 (803 words)

	Prison-Building Boom in Appalachia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prison building has become big business, and supporters say that what the industry lacks in beauty, it more than makes up for in opportunity.
		Joliet Correctional Center, one of the oldest prisons in the nation, was deemed obsolete and a ripe target for the governor's efforts to cut the state budget.
		Once it was among the largest prisons in the country, but Joliet's permanent population has shrunk to about 200, and for decades it has served mainly as the state prison system's intake valve.
	www.doc.state.ok.us /DOCS/News/011218itn.htm (366 words)

	City of Fulton, Illinois - News - 1-29-2004 - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Other rumors that were started that the Thomson prison was going to be used for were using the prison as a facility for federal immigration prisoners, selling it to the federal DOC, or leasing the space to other states who need the cells for their already overcrowded prisons, such as Alaska and Hawaii.
		The age of the Joliet prison, (it was built in 1925) and the lack of room for more and more inmates is what initially brought the thought into the minds of officials.
		Joliet is trying to get away from being seen as a prison town with nothing to offer those moving to the area other than working at the prison.
	www.cityoffulton.us /news/news040129_01.php (487 words)

	Lansing Correctional Facility History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They found the Joliet prison to their liking and decided that it would be the model for the Kansas penitentiary.
		Straw for the ordinary brooms was grown on the prison farm.
		Prisoners were governed by what was known as the "silent system," meaning that they were not allowed to converse with each other under any circumstances.
	www.accesskansas.org /lcf/LCFNET/Public/Standard/History/hist.htm (1574 words)

	Prison record makes Joliet perfect for its television role \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The prison, which was built mostly by convict labor in the 1850s, last held inmates in 2002.
		The Joliet prison is not unknown to film-location scouts – it was featured in the opening of "The Blues Brothers," and the new feature film "Derailed," starring Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston, was filmed there last year.
		The prison's old shower building – where signs inform prisoners they have 15 minutes before the water is turned off – now houses the set's snack room, with tables laden with fruit, candy, nuts and beverages.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051114/news_mz1c14joliet.html (672 words)

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		Early prisons were deeply involved in industries, initially farming but with the birth of the industrial age, a number of other endeavors.
		Prison industry pays a small salary to inmates, a portion of this salary is set aside in savings providing a nest egg to inmates upon release.
		Prison industries accreditation requires that prison work be as close as possible to regular work on the outside so as to better prepare inmates for external work.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~cjreg/jaoprisonindust.htm (973 words)

	history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The prison yard would be a parallelogram 682 1/2 feet in length, by 352 1/2 feet in width, enclosed by a stone wall 5 feet in thickness at the bottom, 2 1/2 feet at the top, with foundation 5 feet below the surface, and wall 25 inches thick.
		The mine was located approximately one mile from the prison and inmates mining coal were permitted to stay at the camp under the supervision of a coal mine supervisor who was not an employee of the prison.
		The prison population peaked in early 1960's with a total of 2,000 but as new prisons were built, by the time the facility closed, the population had decreased to 600-700.
	www.wvpentours.com /history.htm (1021 words)

	KTVU.com - Entertainment - Joliet A Star Of Fox Drama 'Prison Break'
		While almost all of the early shooting was done at the prison, about half of its scenes are now shot in Chicago -- about 45 miles to the north -- either on a soundstage or on location for non-inmate characters.
		The Joliet prison is not unknown to film-location scouts -- it was featured in the opening of "The Blues Brothers," and the new feature film "Derailed," starring Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston, was filmed there last year.
		The prison's old shower building -- where signs inform prisoners they have 15 minutes before the water is turned off -- now houses the set's snack room, with tables laden with fruit, candy, nuts and beverages.
	www.ktvu.com /entertainment/5290610/detail.html (706 words)

	Illinois: Joliet, Plainfield, and Lockport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When you enter Joliet, Illinois from Lockport, you are greeted with the closed Joliet Prison.
		Downtown Joliet has lots of murals (another), Joliet Township High School (formerly Joliet Central), the Rialto Theatre, and Union Station.
		Joliet, the city of steel and stone, has numerous bridges.
	azfoo.net /places/il/joliet (290 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Television: Joliet prison a star of Prison Break (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The yard, where much of the prisoner interaction on the show takes place, is surrounded by 3.5-metre fences topped with menacing barbed wire, and an old sign warns prisoners they will be shot if they approach incoming helicopters.
		The Joliet prison is not unknown to film-location scouts - it was featured in the opening of The Blues Brothers, and the new feature film Derailed, starring Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston, was filmed there last year.
		The prison's old shower building - where signs inform prisoners they have 15 minutes before the water is turned off - now houses the set's snack room, with tables laden with fruit, candy, nuts and beverages.
	jam.canoe.ca /Television/2005/11/10/1301198-ap.html (785 words)

	Leopold in Prison
		Leopold's first impression of Joliet, from the outside at least, was of a "medieval castle on the Rhine".
		While in prison, Richard Loeb re-wrote the English A curriculum for the inmate school and at the time of his death, was working on a History of the Civil War.
		The warden went over the prison records of the two men and saw that Day was marked as a potentially dangerous inmate, with a long punishment record.
	www.leopoldandloeb.com /prison.html (3246 words)

	Dissertation: L. Mara Dodge
		Prison officials complained bitterly and repeatedly over the added burdens created by the presence of female prisoners and the great difficulties they experienced in managing and disciplining them.
		Although the Joliet Womens Prison clearly fit the model of a custodial womens prison, mirroring the male penitentiary in its architecture, management, and disciplinary regimes, it provided a gendered space within the penitentiary where a new generation of female matrons attempted to develop rehabilitative programs based on an ideology of domesticity and proper femininity.
		The character of daily prison life, the emergence of a female prison subculture, and the relations between female matrons and female prisoners are explored.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~women/syll/diss-dodge.html (1324 words)

	Structures and Monuments in Which Illinois Stone was Used
		It is constructed primarily of Joliet limestone quarried in the area.
		Henry's Joliet quarry was used for the foundation and basement floor.
		This article presents the history of Joliet Prison, which was built with Joliet limestone using the labor of the prisoners.
	www.cagenweb.com /quarries/states/il-structs_and_monuments.html (1066 words)

	Jail break? Joliet prison may reopen for paintball fun
		The prison, which closed in 2001 after 143 years of housing such notorious criminals as Baby Face Nelson, could reopen as a paintball playground.
		But Joliet county and federal officials all have expressed an interest in the former prison.
		Joliet officials have toured the facility, and some have suggested acquiring the site for use as a museum or a visitor's center.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/969114/posts (529 words)

	Send Flowers To Joliet, Illinois \| Florist in Joliet, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Joliet is a city of northeast Illinois approximately 40 miles southwest of central Chicago, lying on both sides of the Des Plaines River.
		Joliet is the seat of Will County, although its geographical area also covers part of Kendall County.
		Joliet today, with an estimated population of 123,000 is an industrial shipping center.
	www.sendflowersto.com /Illinois/Joliet/Joliet_IL.htm (305 words)

	Doing time in the fortress they call Joliet
		A century and a half ago, inmates entered the fortress-prison of Joliet and took their places on iron beds softened by straw.
		Dominic Purcell, who plays older brother Lincoln, heard a firsthand account from one Joliet alum about the reason why weightlifting in the yard was banned: An inmate smashed another prisoner's head with a dumbbell.
		Purcell says this while standing at the gate of Joliet's green and summer-humid prison yard, not far from a metal sign warning "SIT DOWN WHEN SHOTS ARE FIRED." Purcell is wearing a white T-shirt and blue prison pants.
	www.suntimes.com /output/elfman/sho-sunday-elf28.html (1292 words)

	Joliet - TheBestLinks.com - ISO 9660, United States, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, Illinois, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Louis Joliet, a 17th century explorer of North America.
		Joliet, Illinois, United States, a city named for Louis Joliet.
		Joliet is an ISO 9660 extension made by Microsoft.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Joliet.html (147 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Joliet prison stars in another movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		JOLIET, Ill. -- It was featured in movie classics such as "The Sting" and "The Blues Brothers," and now another major motion picture will film scenes at the former Joliet Correctional Center.
		The Joliet prison closed in 2002 after 144 years.
		Film officials say having the vacant prison close to Chicago could be a good draw for other movies, since many other empty jails are either too decrepit or remote to be practical.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2004/08/28/joliet_prison_stars_in_another_movie (247 words)

	Joliet on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Joliet is the seat of the College of St. Francis, and there are several state correctional facilites in or near the city.
		Raymond F. Stoiber, 76, of Joliet, Illinois is an incredibly prolific writer of letters to the editor.
		Walter Niesluchowski, who is deaf, is shown in his home in Joliet, Illinois, on April 23, 2003, with the two-way pager he uses to connect to a wireless network.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/Joliet.asp (590 words)

	Re-Nu Home Remodelers serves Joliet, Illinois. Home Improvement, home remodeling, bathroom decorating, cabinet ...
		Joliet was a significant transportation center on the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
		It was the crossroads of two important highways of the 20th century, the storied Route 66 (decomissioned in 1985) and the historically significant Lincoln Highway, later known as U.S. It was the home to Joliet Prison and Joliet Arsenal, both now closed.
		Joliet has recently become something of an anchor city in the Chicagoland area.
	www.renuremodeling.com /cities/joliet.html (145 words)

	Index to The Joliet, IL Prison Convict Register as transcribed by Illinois Trails
		Joliet Correctional Center was built partly due to the overcrowding of the prison at Alton — the state’s first prison, which closed in 1860.
		Joliet’s role as a maximum security facility has changed and evolved over the years, resulting in the modern facility that exits today.
		It shows the date of commutation, the prisoner's registration number and name, the name of the county with jurisdiction, the length of the original sentence, the length of the commuted sentence, and the name of the Governor granting the commutation.
	www.iltrails.org /convictregister.htm (418 words)

	Wikinfo \| Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A prison or penitentiary or jail (in British English, sometimes spelt gaol) is a building or system used to hold persons convicted of crimes.
		The practice of undergoing punishment via a prison sentence, is colloquially expressed as: "doin' time".
		Prisons are exclusively for male or female prisoners, or there are separate departments for each sex.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Prison (230 words)

	Hard time by Tim Landis«Illinois Issues
		And closing prisons is merely one response to a state budget shortfall, which is estimated at $1.3 billion or more for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
		Backers of the California reforms, for example, estimate that 36,000 prisoners, and probation and parole violators, will be diverted from prisons at a savings of up to $150 million a year.
		The governor’s proposal to turn dietary services for 36 correctional facilities, including 27 adult prisons, over to private contractors amounted to fighting words for union employees and their supporters in the Illinois General Assembly, who have long viewed privatization as a threat to jobs and safety.
	illinoisissues.uis.edu /features/2002june/time.html (1887 words)

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		Thus, in Illinois the Joliet Women's Prison was closed in 1933, and its population transferred to the fledgling reformatory.
		Their prison files contain notes from staff and even the superintendent herself about who walked with who to school, who was considered to be overly friendly with whom, and who had sat next to whom at special events, etc.
		Women's prisons, staffed by women and championed by women's groups, were unable to resolve the inherent tensions and conflicts between treatment and custodial concerns, and between rehabilitative and punitive goals.
	www.oah.org /meetings/1997/dodge.htm (6421 words)

	New York Daily News - TV and Radio - 'Prison': You've got jail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There are many such encouraging bons mots posted throughout the premises of Joliet prison in Chicago.
		Before Joliet was decommissioned in 2002, many infamous prisoners, real and fictional passed through its gates.
		In "Prison Break," Purcell is on Death Row, scheduled for extermination for killing the vice president's brother.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/ent_radio/story/334454p-285764c.html (475 words)

	edmontonsun.com - Showbiz: Movies, TV and Theatre - Prison Break owes a lot to real jail
		JOLIET, Illinois -- When Wentworth Miller needs inspiration for his character on Fox's Prison Break, he just takes a look at the fortress-like limestone walls surrounding him.
		The prison, which was built mostly by convict labour in the 1850s, last held inmates in 2002.
		While almost all of the early shooting was done at the prison, about half of its scenes are now shot in Chicago - about 70 km to the north - either on a soundstage or on location for non-inmate characters.
	www.edmontonsun.com /Entertainment/Showbiz/2005/11/14/1306346-sun.html (609 words)

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