For years, he refused to authorize treatments recommended by doctors at the Univ. of Illinois Hospital because either the insurance wouldn’t pay, IDOC does not allow narcotic medications, or IDOC could not afford the expense of mobilizing him back and forth to the hospital for recommended treatments.

So glad he’s not there anymore. Perhaps his replacement will do better!

As for IDOC’s grievance procedure, it is a farce! Prisoners can file grievances, and if approved by a staff counselor, they will be sent on to someone in Springfield. What inmates quickly learn is that the counselors rarely forward them, and Springfield rarely grants a remedy! After this happens repeatedly, prisoners give up trying to get help.

The evidence of lending his car? ONE policeman testified that after a 33 hour interrogation, 18-year-old Paul Modrowski “confessed” to lending his car.

The prosecutor told the jury the Law of Accountability “was like the Three Musketeers: All for one, and one for all. The actions of one are the actions of all.” Without any evidence that Paul Modrowski was even at the scene of the crime, the jury was told to convict him of murder. And the jury did as told.

19 years later, Paul Modrowski is still living in a cage at Stateville, a maximum-security prison in Illinois. Did I mention that he was born disabled? He is autistic but blessed with high intelligence.

To keep his sanity, friends recommended that he keep a journal. His writings are posted on a blog of his life “On the Inside.” You can read it at:
http://paulmodrowski.blogspot.com/

By the way, he did not lend his car to anyone that day. His trial lawyer decided not to allow his alibi witnesses to testify because “The state didn’t prove it’s case, and in this country you are innocent until PROVEN guilty. We do not have to put on a defense.”