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Box 99, Route 1
Cave-In-Rock, IL 62919
(618) 289-3237

The Shawnee Correctional Center is a high-medium security facility, housing adult male felons located in rural Johnson County in extreme southern Illinois. It is also responsible for a satellite facility, the Hardin County Work Camp located near Cave-in-Rock. Shawnee Correctional Center opened in 1984.

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"The Color and Geography of Prison Growth in Illinois" / by Paul Street
"Starve the Racist Prison Beast" / by Paul Street
"Race, Place, and the Perils of Prisonomics" / by Paul Street
"The Political Consequences Of Racist Felony Disenfranchisement" / by Paul Street
"Census dollars bring bounty to prison towns" / The Chicago Reporter
"Prisons and Southern Illinois" / Illinois Labor Market Review
"Throughout Southern Illinois: Mines Move Out as Prisons Move In" / Illinois Labor Market Review
"Hard Time" / Illinois Issues
"Scrutinizing the Supermax" / SIUC Perspectives
"A SORRY EXCUSE FOR A DECENT LIVING: How Rural Illinois Has Staked its Revival on Prison Growth" / The Next American City
"Drugs and Disparity: The Racial Impact of Illinois' Practice of Transferring Young Drug Offenders to Adult Court"
"Jail Overcrowding and Understaffing" / Chicago Tribune
"Maximum Insecurity: Illinois Prisons in Crisis" / AFSCME Council 31 / January 2006
"Failing Grade: The decline in educational opportunities for Illinois prison inmates" / Campaign for Responsible Priorities
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"The Vicious Circle: Race, Prison, Jobs, and Community in Chicago, Illinois and the Nation" / Chicago Urban League
"A Portrait of Prisoner Reentry in Illinois" / The Justice Policy Center