What NOT to do around MCC (Metropolitan Correctional Center)

Yesterday at evening rush hour, I saw some examples of what NOT to do around MCC. For those of you not familiar with the building/location, it's a federal prison facility at the south edge of the Loop - Clark & Van Buren. 

If you are around that location and see a large unmarked van or bus (usually with federal plates, possibly with flashing lights) accompanied by unmarked vans with federal plates and flashing lights, stay clear of the area. Don't try to pass through, like the doofus trying to ride around the roadblock the vans formed yesterday after the bus pulled up by MCC. The officers in those vans are serious and they WILL stop you.

Whoever they were transporting yesterday appeared to be a very big deal - larger security perimeter than I usually see, plus 2 choppers up. Lots of Homeland Security vehicles around the federal courthouse today.

If you see a roadblock by MCC, take it seriously, give them space and go another way.

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Permalink Reply by ad on October 25, 2016 at 8:14am

Most people that have worked in the Dirksen Building at some point have heard the story (or seen the memorial) of how two U.S. Marshalls were killed during a prisoner transport there a few decades ago. 

I always got the sense that the MCC to Dirksen transfer is pretty bad/stressful compared to what U.S. Marshalls deal with at other locations, and they definitely do not mess around as a result.  

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on October 25, 2016 at 8:18am

I can't blame them for wanting to keep tight control. That's a location where there can be a LOT happening on the street.

For a while there's been a major trial happening at the federal courthouse involving murderous gangbangers. There's been a tight security perimeter around the courthouse. I suspect that last night's transport may have been related to it.

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