Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago
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| Location | Downtown Chicago, Illinois, |
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| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Metropolitan Correctional Center |
| Opened | 1975 |
| Managed by | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago (MCC Chicago) is a federal remand center in the United States, located in downtown Chicago, Illinois, at the intersection of Clark and Van Buren Streets. It has a triangular footprint, and has an exercise yard for the prisoners on its roof. The architect Harry Weese of Chicago designed the facility which was built in 1975.
Description
MCC Chicago is an administrative facility designed to house Federal prisoners of all security levels, including both male and female offenders appearing before Federal courts in the Northern District of Illinois.
Prison life
Access to the roofdeck is limited to at most twice a week for 2 hours at a time. There is also access to the gym once or twice a week.
There is a library that houses movies as well as books that prisoners can utilize twice a week.
Notable inmates
- Marc Dreier, former New York attorney[1] (as an in-transit prisoner)
- James Marcello, reputed onetime head of Chicago Outfit[2]
- Mel Reynolds, former Congressman
- Tony Rezko, businessman
- Gerald Scarpelli, mobster who hanged himself in a shower
- Vicente Zambada Niebla, Sinaloa Cartel drug lord
- Sam Hurd, Chicago Bears Receiver
References
- ^ Burrough, Bryan (2009). "Marc Dreier's Crime of Destiny". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
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Further reading
- Waldheim, Charles; Ray, Katerina Ruedi, "Chicago Architecture: histories, revisions, alternatives", Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 0226870383, Cf. p. 285
External links
- MCC Chicago at the Federal Bureau of Prisons website