Illinois Advances Plan to Build $900M Prison Replacements

Illinois officers are transferring ahead with a plan to construct a pair of prisons to exchange two different growing old services. The state has budgeted $900 million for the work, and the Illinois Capital Growth Board and Illinois Dept. of Corrections not too long ago issued a request for proposals in search of a development supervisor and advisor to supervise design and development. 

The deliberate multi-security degree prisons would every include 1,500 single cells in addition to areas for well being and different companies. One would home males and the opposite would home girls, in accordance with state officers.

The prisons will exchange two growing old services, Stateville Correctional Middle in Crest Hill, Sick., and Logan Correctional Middle in Lincoln, Sick. Stateville has already been largely shut down following a decide’s order to switch inmates to different services by the tip of September due to hazardous circumstances within the deteriorating constructing that initially opened in 1925. Repairs to the Stateville constructing had been estimated to value greater than $250 million, plus design points limit area for inmates’ “out-of-cell time” and necessitate further workers, information present. And Logan, which opened in 1978, is ““inefficient, ineffective and unsuitable for any inhabitants,” in accordance with a third-party report ready for the state. 

Officers have recognized unused grounds on the Stateville website because the potential places for each future prisons.

Companies within the RFP have till Dec. 16 to finish a prequalification course of with the Capital Growth Board. Officers plan to shortlist between three and 5 corporations to interview, information present. Particulars can be found on the board’s procurement website. 

“We’re in search of a group with the experience and imaginative and prescient to assist implement Illinois’ daring funding in correctional infrastructure, bettering our capability to ship efficient rehabilitation applications and put together returning residents for profitable reentry,” stated Latoya Hughes, performing director of the state Corrections Dept., in a press release. 

The development supervisor could be excluded from taking part in extra design and development contracts associated to the mission.

The Capital Growth Board is tentatively aiming to current its choice subsequent April.