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Logan Correctional Center

Logan Correctional Center is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Logan Correctional Center rather than just read about it. In short: Logan Correctional Center is an American prison in the state of Illinois for female offenders in Broadwell Township, Logan County, Illinois, near Lincoln and 30 miles (48 km) north of Springfield. The 150-acre (61 ha) prison opened in January 1978.

Key takeaways

  • Logan Correctional Center belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
  • Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
  • Connect Logan Correctional Center to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
  • Reproduce the core statement of Logan Correctional Center from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Logan Correctional Center is an American prison in the state of Illinois for female offenders in Broadwell Township, Logan County, Illinois, near Lincoln and 30 miles (48 km) north of Springfield. The 150-acre (61 ha) prison opened in January 1978. A 57-acre (23 ha) plot of fenced land houses general population prisoners. It lies just south of the Lincoln Correctional Center, a facility for male offenders. Until mid-2000, Illinois had coed prisons, housing both male and female inmates in the same prison. The reason for making Logan Correctional Center a coed prison in 1987 was a fast-growing prison population. When it ended in 2000 it was declared an administrative burden, at the time Logan was supposed to become an all-male prison.

Notable inmates Nicole Abusharif – convicted of the 2007 murder of her domestic partner, Rebecca Klein. Tanishia Covington - perpetrator of the 2017 Chicago torture incident hate crime Catherine Suh - charged and found guilty of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and bribery, for the 1993 murder of her boyfriend Robert O'Dubaine. Sentenced to life in prison. Marni K. Yang - Charged and found guilty of murdering Shaun Gayle’s girlfriend, Rhoni Reuter. Christine Roush - Found guilty of murdering her birth mother Ann Poehlman, sentenced to 40 years. Featured on Snapped series 28. Sarah Kolb - one of the murderers of Adrianne Reynolds.

Conditions The conditions of the Logan Correctional Center have been found to be "untenable" based on a study funded by the Department of Justice in November 2016. In 2024, it was announced that Logan would be torn down as part of $900 million plan by Gov. JB Pritzker and IDOC to rebuild Stateville men’s prison and Logan women’s prison. On June 5, 2026, IDOC and the Illinois Capital Development Board (CDB) announced that a new women’s prison would be constructed in Crest Hill, Illinois, on the same property as the new Stateville prison. According to the 2025 Annual PREA report, Logan had the only four substantiated cases of staff on person in custody sexual misconduct of all prisons in Illinois. Many of those incarcerated at Logan have experienced gender-based violence and prison reproduces this cycle of violence. A 2026 monitoring report on Logan prison from watchdog group the John Howard Association described guards there as: “argumentative, not helpful, rude + degrading, make threats, call us names.”

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Logan Correctional Center

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Logan Correctional Center claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Logan Correctional Center before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Logan Correctional Center ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Logan Correctional Center

In research
Logan Correctional Center appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses Logan Correctional Center in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
Logan Correctional Center is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1978 establishments in Illinois, Buildings and structures completed in 1978, Buildings and structures in Logan County, Illinois, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for Logan Correctional Center outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.
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How to study Logan Correctional Center in 20 minutes

  1. Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
  2. Close the page and write down what Logan Correctional Center means in your own words.
  3. Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
  4. Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
  5. Explain Logan Correctional Center out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Logan Correctional Center in simple terms?

Logan Correctional Center is an American prison in the state of Illinois for female offenders in Broadwell Township, Logan County, Illinois, near Lincoln and 30 miles (48 km) north of Springfield. The 150-acre (61 ha) prison opened in January 1978.

Why does Logan Correctional Center matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Logan Correctional Center?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Logan Correctional Center.

Tags

  • 1978 establishments in Illinois
  • Buildings and structures completed in 1978
  • Buildings and structures in Logan County, Illinois
  • Prisons in Illinois

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