Turner, Hauter react to conclusion of CGFA’s facility closure process

 

[June 14, 2024] 

State Senator Sally Turner (R-Beason) and State Representative Bill Hauter (R-Morton) released the following joint statement in response to the conclusion of the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability’s (CGFA) facility closure process for Logan Correctional Center (LCC):

“We are greatly disappointed that the people of Logan County have not received any assurances regarding the future of Logan Correctional Center. We adamantly disagree with the Pritzker Administration’s misguided plan to close and relocate Logan Correctional Center and insist that the Illinois Department of Corrections commit to rebuilding the facility within Logan County.

“We do not dispute the fact that LCC is in need of repairs and may need to be rebuilt in the near future; however, the Governor’s Administration has failed to provide a compelling argument to justify the disruption and hardship that moving the facility to Northern Illinois would create for our community, the facility’s employees and its residents.

“Neither the employees nor the women residing at Logan deserve to work and live in a decaying and broken-down facility. They also do not deserve to have their lives pointlessly uprooted, which is exactly what the Department of Corrections will do by moving Logan Correctional Center out of Central Illinois.”

[Marcus J. Durrett
Senior Communications Strategist
Communications and Public Affairs]