Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DWIGHT, Ill. — Nature has taken over the vacated Dwight Correctional Center, where a thin forest of spindly trees covers a ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD — In a sign state prison officials are moving forward with the controversial closure of an all-female prison in Dwight, more than four dozen inmates were transferred from a Logan County ...

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 ...

LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) — About 150 inmates from the maximum-security women's prison in Dwight have been moved in preparation for shutting down that facility by the end of the month. Illinois Department of ...

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 ...

DWIGHT — A legislative panel will vote Tuesday on Gov. Pat Quinn’s plan to close the Dwight Correctional Center, a nonbinding recommendation that will be sent to the governor. “We are all very anxious ...

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 ...

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.