Notable Inmates
- Hubert Geralds, sentenced to life for the murders of six prostitutes on Chicago's south side.
- Kenneth Allen, sentenced to death (commuted to life) for the murders of Chicago police officers William Bosak and Roger van Schaik.
- Michael Blucker, an ex-convict who made national headlines when he sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, claiming he had contracted HIV from employee-sanctioned prison rape while under sentence for burglary at Menard.
- David Hendricks, sentenced to four consecutive life sentences for the 1983 murder of his wife and children, but released after a 1991 retrial showed his innocence.
- Richard Honeck, paroled after serving 64 years of a life sentence for murder — reputedly the longest sentence ever served that ended in the prisoner's release.
- Homer Van Meter, bank robber and criminal associate of John Dillinger.
- John Wayne Gacy, notorious serial killer. Sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men.
- Robin Gecht, serving 120 years for the mutilation and rape of an 18-year-old prostitute in the Chicago area during the early 1980s.
- Chester Weger, sentenced to life from being convicted of murdering 3 women at the Starved Rock State Park in Utica, Illinois.
- James Degorski, serving a life sentence without parole for the deaths of seven people in the 1993 Brown's Chicken Massacre in Palatine Illinois.
- Robert Ben Rhoades, truck driver, Serial killer, and rapist. Suspected of killing and raping 100+ women while on the road in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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