In order to be sold, the prison must be considered surplus, which means that it must be vacant before the sale.
All of the inmates being housed at Thomson were moved to the East Moline Correctional Center on April 16, according to IDOC spokesperson Shyran Elman.
The Thomson facility was built in 2001, but never fully opened because of state budget cuts. The 200-bed minimum-security unit was opened in 2006, but the 1,600-bed maximum-security portion has never been utilized.
The Next Step
Congress has yet to start negotiations for the facility. But the government still maintains that it hopes to have the appropriations by Oct. 1, 2010, the start of the fiscal year, according to Assistant Attorney General Lee Lofthus in a statement on Feb. 1.
There will be three appraisals of the prison to determine its value — two on behalf of the state and one from the federal government.
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