- This is an article about a men's penitentiary in Illinois in the United States. For the women's prison in Quebec, Canada, see Joliette Institution.
Joliet Correctional Center (originally known as
Illinois State Penitentiary, colloquially as
Joliet Prison, Joliet Penitentiary and the
Collins Street Prison) was a
prison in
Joliet, Illinois,
America 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. It is also the location for the first season of
Fox Network's
Prison Break television show and the movie
Let's Go to Prison.
