The Vienna Correctional Center’s “Orange Is the New Green” program teaches correctional center residents plant and gardening skills that can hopefully be parlayed into gainful employment ...

VIENNA (WSIL) — Dozens of inmates at Vienna Correctional Center are getting some experience with gardening while behind bars. The center provides the gardening program for inmates who have a few ...

VIENNA — Corey Trainer and Mahendra Anderson hope to take what they learn in prison back to the streets — and the soil. Vienna Correctional Center inmates prepare for a future in agriculture ...

VIENNA, IL (KFVS) - The Vienna Correctional Center in Johnson County, Illinois has been at the center of a class action lawsuit filed by inmates in 2012. Three inmates on behalf of several hundred ...

Over the four decades since, the Vienna Correctional Center has become not only the town’s […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 40°F. Tuesday, March 5th 2024 ...

VIENNA, IL (KFVS) - The Vienna Correctional Center was placed on a level 4 lockdown after an assault on an officer Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 12. According to Tom Schaer, director of communications ...

SPRINGFIELD - John Howard Association officials say inmates at the Vienna Correctional Center allegedly continue to struggle with poor living conditions, despite the Illinois Department of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Members of Illinois media organizations have been invited to tour the Vienna Correctional Center in southern Illinois. The Illinois Department of Corrections sent the ...

Senator Fowler sent out a statement on the afternoon of September 25, after reports of unknown substance exposures at Shawnee Correctional Center and Vienna Correctional Center on Wednesday morning.

The two-hour tour of the minimum-security Vienna Correctional Center in deep southern Illinois came just weeks after Gov. Pat Quinn’s office relented on a decision to block journalists from ...

VIENNA — A union official says an inmate attacked a southern Illinois prison guard, ... WSIL says the inmate now has been relocated to the maximum-security Menard Correctional Center near Chester.