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Oftentimes there are fewer. unlike many other prisons around the country where hundreds of prisoners congregate, at stateville, whether it's in the prison yards, dining hall or any other location, the number of inmates is always limited. these same limitations also apply anytime prisoners are moved from one area of the prison to another. >> in the past we used to move 200, 300 inmates at a time. now it's no more than 50 inmates at a time whether they going to chow or whether they go on the yard. that's the total. 50 inmates. >> a second component of stateville's institutional reforms involved ...

>> prior to property boxes, inmates had really kind of unlimited amount of property. when you have an excessive amount of property, when officers have to search cells, it becomes very difficult because the more property you have, the greater places there is to hide contraband. >> random shakedowns turn up far less contraband than they used to. >> weapon recoveries are significantly down. at one time i found as many as 125 weapons in one cache. now we're finding one or two or three, and this is rare when we're finding them. >> the third reform completely changed inmates' personal appearance. to...

Unlike many other prisons around the country where hundreds of prisoners congregate, at stateville, whether it's in the prison yards, dining hall or any other location, the number of inmates is always limited. these same limitations also apply anytime prisoners are moved from one area of the prison to another. >> in the past we used to move 200, 300 inmates at a time. now it's no more than 50 inmates at a time whether they going to chow or whether they go on the yard. that's the total. 50 inmates. >> a second component of stateville's institutional reforms involved limiting the amount of perso...

>> in the past we used to move 200, 300 inmates at a time. now it's no more than 50 inmates at a time whether they going to chow or whether they go on the yard. that's the total. 50 inmates. >> a second component of stateville's institutional reforms involved limiting the amount of personal property an inmate could possess. that came in the form of two property boxes. everything an inmate wants to keep in his cell, other than fans, televisions, and radios, must fit inside his property boxes. >> prior to property boxes, inmates had really kind of unlimited amount of property. when you have an e...

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