(KFVS) - In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Sam's Club announced they will be offering free women's health screenings.

On Saturday, Oct. 8 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., every Sam's Club Pharmacy will be offering all women, members and non-members, free and simple tests that check thyroid health.

“The estimated number of people with undiagnosed thyroid disease may be 10 percent. For women, the risk is even higher. A woman faces as high as a one in five chance of developing thyroid problems during her lifetime, and that risk increases with age and for those with a family history of thyroid problems,” said Jill Turner-Mitchael, senior vice president, Sam’s Club Health and Wellness. “Our free thyroid screenings are a quick and easy way for women to make sure their bodies are functioning and will continue to function in a healthy way.”

The free screenings will include a TSH test, blood pressure and BMI tests.

PINCKNEYVILLE, IL (KFVS) - Rend Lake College has officially opened a new science lab and computer study center at the RLC-Wall Pinckneyville Campus.

The new $560,000 Robert J. Crawford Science Lab and RLCF Computer Study Center officially opened on Thursday at the campus.

"It's really an addition you should be proud of," said RLCF CEO Pat Kern. "It's designed very well and it may be one of the most attractive classrooms at Rend Lake College."

Officials say 36 of 165 students are taking advantage of the new science opportunities.

"As a small town and community we are lucky to have a facility to take college classes so close to home and during high school," said Pinckneyville High School graduate Paige Brocaille.

The 1,786 square-feet addition was built by Unterbrink Construction Company.

Prison workers and some lawmakers have many concerns in the wake of the governor's proposed closure of several state facilities in Illinois.

There are new details about where the state plans to house over-flow inmates has some questioning the safety of all involved.

In a report to the commission on government forecasting and accountability, the Illinois Department of Corrections (I-DOC) lays out plans to house inmates displaced by Logan Correctional Center's closure in the gymnasiums of other Illinois prisons.

"As you saw in the COFGA report, it will put a burden on the system, but we will have to do that." "Anything that we do, our major concern and first priority is always safety of the public, the staff and inmates," said I-DOC spokesperson Sharyn Elman.

But Pinckneyville Correctional Supply Supervisor Randy Hellmann says he's seen this all before, and he says it was anything but safe.