About IYC Pere Marquette
Illinois Youth Center Pere Marquette (IYC Pere Marquette) is a minimum-security state youth center for boys in Grafton, Illinois, run by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice.
IYC Pere Marquette is a minimum-security youth center for boys in Grafton, run by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. It was part of a 2012 federal survey that found Illinois among four states with high rates of youth-reported sexual victimization.
Illinois Youth Center Pere Marquette is a minimum-security facility for boys with an open campus, run by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) in Grafton, Illinois. IDJJ describes it as its first step-down facility, dedicated to reintegrating youth back into the community. It opened in March 1963 and has a capacity of 40.
IYC Pere Marquette was one of seven Illinois Youth Center facilities surveyed by the DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics in its 2012 National Survey of Youth in Custody, published in June 2013. BJS identified Illinois as one of four states with high rates of reported sexual victimization in juvenile facilities.
In that survey, 15.4% of youth in Illinois state custody reported experiencing sexual victimization — about 60% above the 9.5% national average — and 13.7% reported staff sexual misconduct, against 7.7% nationally.
Illinois General Assembly — Court of Claims Act, 705 ILCS 505/8
The Illinois Court of Claims has exclusive jurisdiction over all claims against the State for damages in cases sounding in tort, if a like cause of action would lie against a private person or corporation in a civil suit.
Source: 705 ILCS 505/8
Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice - IYC Pere Marquette
IYC-Pere Marquette is a level three, minimum security male facility with an open campus. IYC-Pere Marquette is the first step-down juvenile facility totally dedicated to reintegrating the youth back into the community.
Source: IDJJ Facility Page
Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice - Official
IDJJ's Pere Marquette facility was selected as the 2023 winner of the [PbS Barbara Allen-Hagen] award for work in family engagement.
Source: IDJJ Official Website
DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics (2013)
The DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2012 National Survey of Youth in Custody (published June 2013) surveyed youth at seven Illinois Youth Center facilities, including Pere Marquette. BJS identified Illinois as one of four states with high rates of reported sexual victimization: 15.4% of Illinois youth in state custody reported sexual victimization versus a 9.5% national average, and 13.7% reported staff sexual misconduct versus 7.7% nationally.
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics
