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IL: Thomson Correctional Center heads to auction block

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Thomson Correctional Center heads to auction block By Dave Manley The Journal-Standard Posted Dec 17, 2010 Freeport, Ill. ? Thomson Correctional Center sat as cold and quiet as the snow surrounding the structure on Thursday. Over a year ago the federal government expressed interest in buying the facility, and eight months ago the Illinois Department of Corrections closed the prison and transferred the few remaining inmates and employees to facilitate that sale. Now a ?For Sale? sign sits outside of the prison. It went up after the ownership of the site was transferred from the Illinois Department of Corrections to the state?s Central Management Services through a quitclaim deed filed in the Carroll County courthouse in early December. ?(The transfer of ownership) is a required procedural step necessary for sale of any state facility,? Grant Klinzman, a spokesman for Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 22, 2010 (boomark / email).