Blair Paddock

Hundreds of Logan Correctional Center workers and supporters gather at the Lincoln Junior High School, 208 Broadway St., Lincoln, Ill., on Thursday, June 13, 2024, to protest the proposed relocation of the prison. (Blair Paddock / WTTW News)

The circumstances around his death have left friends, family and others incarcerated at Stateville questioning the sequence of events around his medical treatment. Friends who witnessed his death last week said he “didn’t have to die.”

File photo of a nursing home on the South Side of Chicago. (Credit: Brittany Sowacke)

At an event in Homan Square, panelists ranging from youth violence prevention organizers to people who work in banking shared how they’re trying to curb violence in the city.

Relatives and friends are questioning the circumstances surrounding the death of 51-year-old Michael Broadway. An IDOC spokesperson said the agency is “actively investigating.”

“Right now, there’s over 420 residents at Stateville who are at risk of dire injury due to the structural vulnerabilities, degradation and deterioration of those buildings that put them at risk of serious physical injury,” said Heather Lewis Donnell, a partner at Loevy and Loevy.

File photo from inside Stateville Correctional Center. (WTTW News)

Stateville Correctional Center is pictured in a file photo. (Andrew Campbell / Capitol News Illinois)

Conditions at Stateville Correctional Center are so uninhabitable that a federal judge ordered most of the population out by the end of September. WTTW News sent questions to men incarcerated at Stateville to hear how they feel about the shuttering of the prison and the state building a new facility.

Michael Broadway is pictured in November 2023 during a Northwestern University graduation ceremony at Stateville Correctional Center. (Credit: Northwestern University)