Joliet Correctional Center

Joliet Correctional Center
	East gate of the prison
Location	Joliet, Illinois, United States
Coordinates	41°32′49″N 88°04′27″W / 41.54694°N 88.07417°W
Status	Closed in 2002, Opened for tours in 2018
Opened	1858
Website	www.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) was a prison in Joliet, Illinois, United States, from 1858 to 2002. It is featured in the motion picture The Blues Brothers as the prison from which Jake Blues is released at the beginning of the movie (hence his nickname Joliet Jake). It is also used for the exterior shots of the Illinois "state prison" in the James Cagney film White Heat, and the location for first season of Fox Network's Prison Break television show, and the movie Let's Go to Prison. In 2018, it opened for tours.^[1]

^ Borrelli, Christopher (August 27, 2018). "Tours to start at Old Joliet Prison, a ruin of busted glass and the stuff of nightmares". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2018-08-27.

[1] Borrelli, Christopher (August 27, 2018). "Tours to start at Old Joliet Prison, a ruin of busted glass and the stuff of nightmares". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2018-08-27.

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