Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center

VISITATION SCHEDULE

Visitation is from 9am to 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays and all Major Holidays. Please call the facility to see if a holiday qualifies.

HISTORY

• CEC has been providing services since October 1, 2006.
• CEC provides reentry treatment services inside this Illinois Department of Corrections facility.
• Facility opened in July of 1995 and has been DASA accredited since 1996.
• Residents are referred through the Illinois Department of Corrections.

SERVICES

• At the SWICC, CEC provides a wide range of reentry services designed to help residents succeed upon their return to the community through the modified therapeutic community model.
• Within the reentry treatment program, residents are provided with substance abuse treatment, life skills training, individualized assessment, and individual/group counseling.
• CEC has a dedicated methamphetamine recovery unit that targets the specific etiology of methamphetamine abuse and using a comprehensive and groundbreaking clinical design to treat these residents.
• The meth program uses the "Matrix Model" which is an advanced methamphetamine-specific curriculum adopted for use in a prison treatment setting by Dr. Richard Rawson.
• CEC also provides the CAAP (Certified Associate Addictions Professional) Program which is accredited through IAODAPCA. The CAAP program gives residents the opportunity to receive quality training and education to become Certified Associate Addictions Professionals.
• SWICC offers several educational opportunities from GED/Pre-GED to post secondary education available through a contract with Lake Land College.
• Lake Land College offers Associate Degree courses and vocational courses that can lead to certification in many specialty areas.
• Local community groups provides job preparedness, placement and retention services to clients as well as aftercare organizations that assist residents in finding community-based substance abuse treatment, mental health services, housing support, education and other services after their release.

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