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{{ Vienna Correctional Center }}
Opened: November 1965
Capacity: 885
Level 6: Minimum-Security All
Average Daily Population: 1,595
Total Average Daily Population: 1,595
Average Age: 32
Average Annual Cost Per Inmate: $17,370.00
Business Mail:
State Route 6695
Hwy 146E
Vienna, IL 62995
Phone: (618) 658-8371
Inmate Mail:
State Route 6695
P.O. Box 100
Vienna, IL 62995
The Vienna Correctional Center is a Level 6 minimum-security facility that houses adult male offenders. The facility opened in 1965 and is located in southern Illinois adjacent to the Shawnee National Forest in Johnson County.
The physical design of Vienna Correctional Center is based on the town square concept, which includes the dining facility, library, chapels, commissary, barbershop and gymnasium. The six housing units are positioned in a manner that promotes awareness and interaction with others. The housing capacity of Vienna Correctional Center is 885. Criteria for placement at Vienna Correctional Center requires that an offender be within five years of his anticipated release date, exhibit positive institutional adjustment and exhibit measurable participation in rehabilitative and/or educational programs.
Vienna Correctional Center is the parent facility to the Impact Incarceration Program (IIP) at Dixon Springs, which is located in Pope County. Designated as a Level 7 facility, the IIP was opened in 1990. The bootcamp philosophy is designed to provide a short-term program of labor intensive discipline to include programming geared toward improving self-esteem and discouraging further criminal behavior. The IIP is a co-ed program with a housing capacity for 284 offenders, designed for 50 female and 234 male participants. During FY 2003, the average age of offenders involved in the program was 21 years, with an average daily population of 239 offenders.
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