List of Illinois state prisons

This is a list of state prisons in Illinois. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the state of Illinois.

* Big Muddy River Correctional Center
* Centralia Correctional Center
* Clayton Work Camp
* Crossroads Adult Transition Center
* Danville Correctional Center
* Decatur Adult Transition Center
* Decatur Correctional Center
* Dixon Correctional Center
* Dixon Springs Impact Incarceration Program
* DuQuoin Impact Incarceration Program
* Dwight Correctional Center
* East Moline Correctional Center
* East Moline Work Camp 1
* East Moline Work Camp 2
* Fox Valley Adult Transition Center
* Graham Correctional Center
* Hardin City Work Camp
* Hill Correctional Center
* Illinois River Correctional Center
* Jacksonville Correctional Center
* Jessie Ma Houston Adult Transition Center
* Kankakee Minimum Security Unit
* Lawrence Correctional Center
* Lincoln Correctional Center
* Logan Correctional Center
* Menard Correctional Center
* North Lawndale Adult Transition Center
* Peoria Adult Transition Center
* Pinckneyville Correctional Center
* Pittsfield Work Camp
* Pontiac Correctional Center
* Robinson Correctional Center
* Shawnee Correctional Center
* Southern Illinois Adult Transition Center
* Southwestern Correctional Center
* Springfield Work Camp
* Stateville Correctional Center
* Stateville Minimum Security Unit
* Tamms Correctional Center
* Tamms Minimum Security Unit
* Taylorville Correctional Center
* Thomson Correctional Center
* Vandalia Correctional Center
* Vandalia Work Camp
* Vienna Correctional Center
* West Side Adult Transition Center
* Western Correctional Center

Closed prisons

* Joliet Prison

IDOC in Pop Culture

The Illinois Department of Corrections is also credited with the creation of phrase: "The Bull Horns are up," which has been recognized as official office protocol throughout the department.

The phrase is used to describe a telephone with the hand set turned upside down on the receiver making the shape of bull horns, hence the phrase "The Bull Horns are up." This symbolic gesture communicates to co-workers that the individual is out of the office for an extended period of time.

Though the exact origination of the symbol and the phrase are unknown, it is believed to have been started by IDOC's vehicle coordinator, in the mid to late 1980's and coined by two IDOC interns between 2005 and 2006.

When one utilizes this function of office protocol it is common practice for the first person to notice the telephone as being overturned to announce to the rest of the office that "The Bull Horns are up!" while gesturing one's hand with the pinky finger and thumb extended with the three middle fingers folded, this is followed by announcing the individual's name.

External links

* [http://www.idoc.state.il.us/ Illinois Department of Corrections]