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Springfield — More than 300 general population inmates sent to a LaSalle County prison set up exclusively for intensive drug treatment are intermingling, and some experts fear that could jeopardize the program.

Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration promised that inmates transferred to Sheridan Correctional Center in August to ease the state budget crisis would have no contact with those in the substance-abuse recovery program.

Now Department of Corrections officials acknowledge the two groups have some contact, but say the situation is temporary.

Corrections spokeswoman Januari Smith — who said in August the two groups would be completely separated — says they share religious services sometimes and the visitation room on weekends, with no adverse effects.

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