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The prison was slow to modernize.

There was no running water or toilets in the cells in 1910.

The construction of the nearby Stateville Correctional Center begun in 1917 and opened in March 1925 was meant to lead to the swift closure of Joliet.

This did not happen, and both prisons operated simultaneously for the rest of the 20th Century.