A look at Vienna prison’s history

Illinois taxpayers spend more than a billion dollars every year on prisons.  We’ve been looking at one state prison in Vienna, in far southern Illinois.  Yesterday we heard how --not so many years ago--prison inmates staffed the ambulance service and took care of residents who were having medical emergencies. It’s far different than life there now.  So, today, we’re digging a little deeper into the history of this prison, a history that reminds us of the decades-long neglect suffered by the Illinois Department of Corrections.  IPR’s Robert Wildeboer reports.