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Judge urges merger of justice facilities into new downtown complex (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Milwaukee County’s outgoing chief judge called Tuesday for replacing several aging county justice facilities with a new downtown complex that would combine courts and correctional programs to rehabilitate adult and juvenile offenders.

IDOC to Open Thomson Correctional Center (The Prairie Advocate)

Many Carroll County residents breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday when Illinois Department of Corrections Director Roger E. Walker Jr. confirmed the transfer of more than 800 maximum security prisoners and as many as 540 prison personnel to the Thomson Correctional Center beginning in January 2009.

Correctional Facility Topic Of Town Hall Meeting (KEYT 3 Santa Barbara)

Sheriff's from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties were part of a forum in Paso Robles to discuss a proposed Tri-County re-entry facility.

Westville Correctional facility wins plane pull competition for special Olympics (The Times of Northwest Indiana)

WESTVILLE | Twenty members of the Emergency Squad and K-9 Team for the Westville Correctional Facility (WCC) won the FedEx Plane Pull Challenge held recently at Indianapolis International Airport to raise funds for the Special Olympics of Indiana, beating 53 other teams in the annual competition.

Moving Out (Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune)

The portable trailers once housing business offices and support facilities for contractors working on the new Chillicothe Correctional Center are slowly being removed from the site as construction comes to a close. The first trailers arrived nearly two years ago and, at one time, there were as many as two dozen situated on the north side of work site. Today, only a few trailers remain.