Joliet Correctional Center

Not to be confused with Stateville Correctional Center, also near Joliet and often mistaken for Joliet Correctional Center.

Joliet Correctional Center
Main entrance
Interactive map of Joliet Correctional Center
LocationJoliet, Illinois, United States
Coordinates41°32′49″N 88°04′27″W / 41.54694°N 88.07417°W / 41.54694; -88.07417
StatusOpened for tours in 2018
Opened1858
Closed2002
Websitewww.jolietprison.org

Joliet Correctional Center (originally known as Illinois State Penitentiary, colloquially as Joliet Prison, Joliet Penitentiary, the Old Joliet Prison, and the Collins Street Prison) is a former prison in Joliet, Illinois, United States, which operated from 1858 to 2002.

Numerous films and television productions have used the prison as a setting or filming location. In the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, character Jake Blues is released from the prison at the beginning of the movie (hence his nickname "Joliet Jake"). Footage of the prison is used for the exterior shots for the Illinois "state prison" in the 1949 film White Heat, and for the location of the first and second season of the series Prison Break, and the 2006 film Let's Go to Prison.

In 2018, the decommissioned prison was opened to guided tours.

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