Where in the hell is Marion Illinois?

[underpants]

My wife is there on a business trip. Lucky her.

http://www.ci.marion.il.us/

Civic Center


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http://www.city-data.com/city/Marion-Illinois.html

[papau]

1. Site of the Number one highest security most violent prison in the US!

What is a Control Unit Prison?
A control unit prison is a prison or part of a prison that is in a state of permanent lockdown, a usually-temporary condition used to control and suppress disruptions within a prison by severly restricting prisoners' rights. In theory, control units warehouse the "worst of the worst", the most violent prisoners who threaten the security of guards and other prisoners. This once temporary condition has been increasingly adopted as the new model for US prisons.

Before 1963, Alcatraz prison in California supposedly housed the most dangerous prisoners in the US. In 1963, the federal prison in Marion, Illinois took its place as a more modern, more technologically advanced maximum security prison. In 1978, Marion became the highest security prison in the US. It also became the most violent prison. Marion became the first control unit in 1983 when two prison guards were killed and Marion was put into permanent "lockdown". Marion has been the model for prisons across the country, which are rapidly becoming more and more repressive in the hopes of subduing any and all resistance to unjust treatment. Now more than 30 state prison systems, as well as the federal system, have some form of control unit.

[underpants]

4. Yeah I knew I had heard of it

She went down to the corner store and when she told the owner where she was going he immediately said "That's where the killed Timothy McVeigh". It clicked in my mind as soon as I heard that.

[moof]

9. Small Point but they murdered TM in TH. Terre Haute, Indiana.

[underpants]

11. D'oh

Okay

[jukes]

7. agreed, papau

the american abu ghraib. a "level four" prison facility.

[XNASA]

2. Downstate, I mean.....really, really downstate.

It's much closer to St. Louis than to Chicago. It's also near the Shawnee National Forest, which is a beautiful spot.

Pretty country, as they say.

[underpants]

3. Well I know it has an airport

She had a 2 hour layover in St.Louis........for a 45 minute flight.

[XNASA]

5. She could have drove from St. Louis to Marion in an hour.

It's also not too far from Carbondale, which is the location of Southern Illinois University.

There are a few good restaurants in Carbondale. I think the best restaurant in Marion is probably the Bob Evans. :shrug:

[underpants]

6. My best friends wife went to SIU before they got married.

Master's degree. He used to make the 10-12 drive (on 3 cilanders) to see here. He didn't think much of Carbondale but then they had NO money back then so they probably didn't go out much.

[Radical Activist]

8. I used to live near there

I went to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Visiting the Shawnee National Forest is probably the most interesting thing to do while she's there.
She could also visit the site of the famed Herrin Massacre. That was one of the more bloody episodes in labor history. One of the big coal mine companies learned that there's some shit you can do in other places that just won't fly in Southern Illinois.

[XNASA]

10. Mrs. XNASA is a Saluki too.

She grew up in Mr. Vernon.