Category: IDOC
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Why Hoping MGT will return in January Won’t “Make It So”
May 31, 2012, State Legislature passes new law paving way for Early Release programs! Read latest at http://richardwanke.com Meritorious good time in the IL Department of Corrections (IDOC) was taken away in January 2010. Since then, inmates have been clamoring to know when it will return. IDOC staff have no idea when it will return. IDOC…
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Causes of IL Prison Overcrowding
This is a copy of Dec 16, 2010, Craigslist posting regarding the Winnebago County SA’s office. The poster is obviously someone who works in the office. He or she is expressing their disgust over management’s apparent attitude that every defendant is a criminal regardless of the facts of the case. It is this continuing emphasis…
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How Prison Inmates Got Screwed over MGT
This is taken and re-posted here in it’s entirety from December 4 2010, entry on the blog “PRISON CULTURE” with the permission of Mariame Kaba, from PRISON CULTURE. We think this is an excellent, succinct account of the way in which IL politicians manipulated the electoral public and played around with the lives of IL…
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NYPD Fakes Statistics, Downgrades Rape Charges — Feministe
by JILL on 12.16.2010 · 4 COMMENTS in ARE YOU SERIOUS?, CRIME, SEXUAL ASSAULT Anyone who’s seen The Wire knows the drill here: There’s political pressure to have lower crime rates, and so crimes are downgraded and not fully pursued. Which, in New York, has let serial rapists go free. An investigative report by the…
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Attorneys plead: Release Ryan – The Daily Journal
Dec. 16, 2010, 12:47 pm By Dimitrios Kalantzis dkalantzis@daily-journal.com Attorneys for convicted former Illinois Gov. George Ryan are asking a federal judge in Chicago to release the 76-year-old on bail after his wife was diagnosed Wednesday with incurable lung cancer and given three to six months to live. Lura Lynn Ryan, also 76, his wife…
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Northwestern attorneys seek seal of documents in wrongful conviction case – chicagotribune.com
Northwestern Law School has asked a Cook County judge to seal evidence in a case that has drawn attention to the methods used by the school’s journalism students investigating a murder in which they say a man was wrongfully convicted. Attorneys from the school’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, who are representing Anthony McKinney in his…
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Is the tide turning against the death penalty? | TEXAS DEATH PENALTY Blog | dallasnews.com
11:11 AM Mon, Dec 13, 2010 Michael Landauer/Editor A new report by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty illustrates how doubt is casting its shadow over the justice system in the state. Only eight people were sentenced to death by Texas juries this year, a record low since the death penalty was reinstated…
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Preventing wrongful convictions | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/09/2010
By Marissa Boyers Bluestine The case of Louis Mickens Thomas, a life prisoner whose contested murder conviction was detailed recently in The Inquirer, exposes a flaw in Pennsylvania’s criminal-justice system that’s largely unknown to the public: Convicts are often unable to access evidence that could prove their innocence because the state has destroyed it or…
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Quinn urged to use Thomson for overcrowding – Chicago Sun-Times
SPRINGFIELD-Gov. Quinn should avoid selling a mothballed state prison once targeted for Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects and instead use it to ease overcrowding in other Illinois prisons, state government’s largest public-employee union urged Thursday. AFSCME Council 31 called the plan to relinquish control of the Thomson Correctional Center in northwestern Illinois to the federal government…
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AFSCME Says Illinois Needs Thompson
(IRN)-An auction for the Thomson prison is scheduled for Dec. 21, but state’s largest employees union wants it scrapped. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is asking Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois Department of Corrections to put a halt to the auction, which was scheduled after the federal government stalled…