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{{ Pinckneyville Correctional Center }}
Opened: October 1998
Capacity: 1,176
Level 2: Secure Medium-Security Adult Male
Average Daily Population: 2,052
Business Mail:
5835 State Route 154
Pinckneyville, IL 62274
Phone: (618) 357-9722
Inmate Mail:
5835 State Route 154
P.O. Box 999
Pinckneyville, IL 62274
Pinckneyville Correctional Center, a Level 2 facility, opened in October 1998. The facility is comprised of 19 buildings totaling 434,000 square feet contained on 148 acres of land. There are six housing units, five of which are X-design. The R5 housing unit, with a capacity of 218 inmates, is designed for single-celled segregation placement. An additional 30 cells in receiving segregation gives Pinckneyville the largest Segregation Unit for a Level 2 facility in the state. Pinckneyville Correctional Center has an annual operating budget of $32,775,300 with 430 full-time state employees and an additional 60 contractual staff employed by School District 428, Rend Lake College and Health Professionals Limited.
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