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   https://apnews.com/article/illinois-prisons-stateville-union-   
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   SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials Friday announced their   
   impending search for a firm to manage the planning and construction of   
   two prisons with a combined budget of $900 million.   
      
   The Illinois Capital Development Board announced that it will issue a   
   bulletin as early as Nov. 19 seeking proposals from a construction   
   management and owner’s representative team to oversee the project. The   
   team will start the ball rolling on replacing the century-old Stateville   
   Correctional Center in suburban Chicago and the Logan Correctional   
   Center for women in Lincoln.   
      
   It is the first concrete move the Illinois Department of Corrections has   
   taken to begin the project since Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced last   
   spring that he was setting aside capital construction money for the   
   purpose. Lawmakers have been wary of the Corrections Department,   
   questioning its unwillingness to divulge detailed plans or timetables.   
      
   The Capital Development Board doesn’t usually make an announcement   
   before issuing a so-called professional services bulletin seeking   
   proposals. But board spokesperson Lauren Grenlund said the project’s   
   scope and size and the need for some firms to show their viability   
   through a lengthy prequalification process prompted officials to do so.   
      
   “This is a big one,” Grenlund said. “We don’t always put out pre-   
   advertisements, but we wanted to be sure that this got in front of   
   industry professionals as soon as possible.”   
      
   Grenlund said it would likely be early next year when a firm is chosen.   
   She referred questions about project specifics to the Corrections   
   Department. Telephone and email messages seeking comment were left for a   
   prison system spokesperson.   
      
   The announcement describes two 1,500-bed single-cell prisons, one for   
   women and one for men, in facilities housing inmates posing minimum-,   
   medium- and maximum-security risks.   
      
   “They will focus on providing therapeutic spaces with programming,   
   medical (and) mental health, dietary, and recreational services that   
   better support the rehabilitation and reintegration of individuals into   
   their communities,” the notice said.   
      
   Answering a court order that found Stateville uninhabitable and   
   inaccessible, Corrections officials have all but emptied the prison,   
   which opened in 1925, over objections from employees. They argued it   
   should stay open while a new facility is built and opened next door not   
   only to save them from having to travel greater distances to work in   
   other prisons but to avoid disruption to inmates who were participating   
   in educational and social service programs.   
      
   The employees’ union, the American Federation of State, County and   
   Municipal Employees Council 31, reached an agreement with the   
   Corrections Department that allows a large number of Stateville   
   employees to continue working at prison facilities that remain open on   
   the Stateville campus, union spokesperson Anders Lindall said.   
      
   Corrections officials said during legislative hearings last summer that   
   they were considering moving the Logan prison from Lincoln in central   
   Illinois to the Stateville campus in Crest Hill, 40 miles (64   
   kilometers) southwest of Chicago, because up to 40% of women housed   
   there are from the Chicago area. That proposal met with howls of protest   
   from Lincoln-area officials and residents and prison employees,   
   represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal   
   Employees Council 31.   
      
   Skeptical lawmakers have also questioned the proposed 1,500-bed capacity   
   of each new prison. Prison populations statewide have declined   
   dramatically in recent years. Stateville has a listed operational   
   capacity of just over 3,000 inmates and in June had a population of 568.   
   Logan’s capacity is listed at about 1,400 and in June had just over   
   1,000.   
      
      
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