Dwight Correctional Center is an Illinois Department of Corrections maximum security prison for adult females

Incarceration of women

This article discusses the incarceration of women in correctional facilities.-History:In the United States, authorities began housing women in correctional facilities separate from men in the 1870s...

. It is located at 23813 E. 3200 North Road in Nevada Township

Nevada Township, Livingston County, Illinois

Nevada Township is located in Livingston County, Illinois. The population was 212 at the 2000 census.The Illinois Department of Corrections Dwight Correctional Center is within the township. Dwight Correctional Center houses the State of Illinois female death row.- External links :***...

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Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 Livingston County

Livingston County, Illinois

Livingston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 38,950, which is a decrease of 1.8% from 39,678 in 2000. Its county seat is Pontiac....

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, near Dwight

Dwight, Illinois

Dwight is a village in located mainly in Livingston County, Illinois, with a small portion in Grundy County, Illinois. The population was 4,260 at the 2010 census. Dwight contains an original stretch of the famous U.S. Route 66, and uses a railroad station designed in 1891 by Henry Ives Cobb. It is...

. Prior to the 2011 abolition of the state death penalty, Dwight Correctional Center housed the State of Illinois female death row.

History

The prison was originally opened on November 24, 1930 as the Oakdale Reformatory for Women. It sits on 100 acre (0.404686 km²) of land.

Helping Paws Program

The prison has a partnership with Support Dogs Inc. Offenders involved in the program groom and provide obedience training

Obedience training

Obedience training usually refers to the training of a dog and the term is most commonly used in that context. Obedience training ranges from very basic training, such as teaching the dog to reliably respond to basic commands such as "sit", "down", "come", and "stay", to high level competition...

 for the dog

Dog

The domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...

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Correctional Industry Program

The garment shop provides sewn items to male and female offenders throughout the state including blue and black pants

Trousers

Trousers are an item of clothing worn on the lower part of the body from the waist to the ankles, covering both legs separately...

, blue shirt

Shirt

A shirt is a cloth garment for the upper body. Originally an undergarment worn exclusively by men, it has become, in American English, a catch-all term for almost any garment other than outerwear such as sweaters, coats, jackets, or undergarments such as bras, vests or base layers...

s, pajamas

Pajamas

Pajamas, also spelled pyjamas , can refer to several related types of clothing. The original paijama are loose, lightweight trousers fitted with drawstring waistbands and worn in South and West Asia by both sexes...

 and duster

Duster (clothing)

A duster is a light, loose-fitting long coat.The original dusters were full-length, light-colored canvas or linen coats worn by horsemen to protect their clothing from trail dust. These dusters were typically slit up the back to hip level for ease of wear on horseback and were the recommended...

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Day Camp

This program was originally known as weekend Camp Celebration program , which is a one-day camp out for mother (inmate) and child (16 years of age and younger) bonding. The camping took place at the institution

Vocational Programs

This program provides relevant job skills to inmates for use upon release to lessen the chance of recidivism

Recidivism

Recidivism is the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after they have either experienced negative consequences of that behavior, or have been treated or trained to extinguish that behavior...

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Lake Land College

The college provides computer technology and business management courses to equip inmates with the skills needed to obtain a job in data processing

Data processing

Computer data processing is any process that a computer program does to enter data and summarise, analyse or otherwise convert data into usable information. The process may be automated and run on a computer. It involves recording, analysing, sorting, summarising, calculating, disseminating and...

 and the office environment. There is also a commercial cooking

Cooking

Cooking is the process of preparing food by use of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions. Cooks themselves also vary widely in skill and training...

 program, which prepares offenders for jobs in the restaurant

Restaurant

A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...

 or food service industry. Additionally, two dog programs teach inmates the skills to be able to groom

Personal grooming

Personal grooming is the art of cleaning, grooming, and maintaining parts of the body. It is a species-typical behavior that is controlled by neural circuits in the brain.- In humans :...

 dogs and provide service dog

Service dog

A service dog is a type of assistance dog specifically trained to help people who have disabilities including visual or hearing impairment, and also to help people with mental disabilities including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and severe depression...

 training.

External links

• Dwight Correctional Center - Illinois Department of Corrections