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{{ Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center }}
Opened: August 1995
Capacity: 600
Level 6: Minimum-Security Adult Male
Average Daily Population: 661
Business Mail:
950 Kingshighway Street
Caller Serv. 50
East St. Louis, IL 62203
Phone: (618) 394-2200
Inmate Mail:
950 Kingshighway Street
P.O. Box 129
East St. Louis, IL 62203
The Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center is a totally dedicated substance abuse treatment community. Since the facility's inception, the contractor, Cornell-Interventions, has developed a Therapeutic Community (TC) substance abuse program for all offenders, which presently is successfully implemented throughout the facility. Employees of the Turning Point Program, so named by offenders, interface with all departments within the facility to ensure quality treatment. All offenders incarcerated at the facility attend substance abuse treatment groups five days per week.
The Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center also has a 67-bed work camp on-site, which provides community service work to government and non-profit groups within a 45-mile radius of the institution. The work camp offenders are also a part of the substance abuse treatment community. The work the offenders do in the community continues to be a proud achievement of the facility.
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