Ashland is a minimum-security prison, with a minimum-security camp connected to it. Many of the prisoners serve short-term sentences or are nearing the end of their sentences at regional prisons.

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It was the first of its kind to take place inside the East Moline Correctional Center, a minimum-security men’s prison on the Illinois-Iowa border about two and a half hours west of Chicago.

The plan, which was included in McKee's January state budget proposal, would have seen the minimum security population moved into a separate, segregated unit inside the ACI's medium security prison.