Category: IL in Fiscal Ruins
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Scourge of Private Prisons
https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/privatization-criminal-justice/private-prisons
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Prison treats inmates too harshly – Rockford Register Star
Source: Prison treats inmates too harshly – Rockford Register Star
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Most financial experts critical of Rauner approach to fix state money mess
Rauner’s facing major skepticism from State politicians, and just about everyone with any financial expertise on State finances over his optimism that the State can drag itself out of the financial mess it is in if only those responsible for making decisions hold firm and have the guts to cut enough in public and state…
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What does the New Era of Rauner Mean for IL Politics
Pat Quinn out and a new IL Governor has moved in and is redrawing the State’s economic and political landscape completely it appears in the opposite direction that Quinn and democrats were trying to pull it. The big question in everyone’s mind is: Will IL be moving backward in the financial abyss or forward out of…
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Even Lisa Madigan raises staff pay & attempts to justify it!
Lisa Madigan is generally regarded as one of our State’s most responsive officials. Her office has been aggressively trying to enforce state powers to collect legal fines and to litigate wrongdoing. This seems to have emboldened her to join the bandwagon to raise staff pay. http://www.rrstar.com/article/20150127/NEWS/150129481
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Fat chance of holding down pay of IL officials
This bill stands virtually no chance of passage. Despite IL state fiscal near ruin, we can guarantee that our elected legislators will never cut their wages back however much they trip over themselves to cut State services. http://www.rrstar.com/article/20150127/NEWS/150129481
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It is not just IL inmates that Governor Quinn is putting in danger…
Safety and conditions at IL prisons and overcrowding have been a very low priority to Governor Quinn, for the past several years now and things are coming to a head a lot faster than Quinn is moving to solve any of these problems. Quinn has shown himself to be adept at squeezing agency budgets,…
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Good news for everyone waiting for IDOC to Begin Early Release Program!
State Readies for Revamped Early Prisoner Release Program Article online at theSouthern.com
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“…state’s dangerously overcrowded prisons have no margin for error.”
Governor Pat Quinn just signed the State budget cuts and still plans to close prisons despite IDOC inmate overcrowding, poor prison conditions and now natural disaster strikes due to weather conditions! What’s next? Storm damage forces inmate transfer from Dixon “…SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Storm damage forced the transfer of dozens of maximum-security, mentally ill…