Illinois state prisons have $2.5 billion in deferred maintenance, report finds – Center Square

The consultants from CGL Companies found deferred maintenance, including bad roofs, black mold, broken toilets, crumbling walls and poor ventilation in Illinois’ state correctional facilities. “Twenty percent of the prisons in Illinois opened their doors before 1926,” said Jenny Vollen-Katz, of the prison watchdog group the John Howard Association of Illinois.