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{{ Robinson Correctional Center }}
Opened: January 1991
Capacity: 600
Level 5: High Minimum-Security Adult Male
Average Daily Population: 1,193
Total Average Daily Population: 1,193
Average Age: 33
Average Annual Cost Per Inmate: $18,035.00
Business Mail:
13423 East 1150th Avenue
P.O. Box 1000
Robinson, IL 62454
Phone: (618) 546-5659
Inmate Mail:
13423 East 1150th Avenue
P.O. Box 900
Robinson, IL 62454
Robinson Correctional Center is a Level 5, high-minimum security prison for adult males. It is located in southeastern Illinois one mile northeast of Robinson in Crawford County. The facility is approximately 6.5 miles from the Indiana border and 230 miles south of Chicago.
The facility is comprised of 23 buildings, which provide more than 200,000 square feet of serviceable space. This includes six housing units, each containing 10 dormitory rooms with 20 beds per room, an administration building housing the executive, personnel, business and record offices, a control center, mailroom, armory and main gate. Also within the compound are an academic and vocation building, a multi-purpose building with a gym and non-denominational chapel, a medical unit, segregation unit, a food service building and a building housing identification, personal property, commissary and laundry. A maintenance building, warehouse and a training facility, which includes a firing range are located outside the inner perimeter fence. The entire complex occupies approximately 100 acres.
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