Category: IL in Fiscal Ruins
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Quinn Tells Legislators he Wants to Use Prison Money to Save Children; so Stop Complaining!
The IL Senate sent the official budget bills to Governor Pat Quinn yesterday, and Quinn is now announcing that he want to going to go ahead and move money from the IL corrections budget to avoid cuts to DCFS. Quinn to cut prison funding in hopes of helping DCFS Quinn has angered a lot of…
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Quinn Plowing Forward to Close Tamms, Dwight, & Other State Facilities!
As we anticipated, Quinn is not listening to the input of others when it comes to his plan to trim state government in IL. Despite widespread pain and outrage, it looks like Quinn is moving forward to close as many of the 59 state facilities he early this year announced plans to close as he…
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John Howard Association’s clarification of contents of SB2621
The John Howard Association was one of the main organizations that wrote SB2621. This fact sheet is from their website theJHA.org and answers a lot of questions readers are asking about how sentence credits will work and who will be eligible for them: What you need to know about SB 2621 SB 2621 is a piece…
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IL State Facility closures adverted for now by IL legislature, but it is all up to Quinn in the end!
The IL legislature is sending IL Governor Pat Quinn a 2012 budget which includes funding to continue operation of all the facilities which Quinn proposed closing in order to save the State money. The Pantagraph article below summarizes the situation: Budget keeps facilities open, but layoffs come anyway “…The layoffs come as lawmakers gave Quinn…
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IL Legislature Today Approves possible IDOC Early Release Program, SB 2621, and Sentence Credits!
It’s official! As anticipated, the IL House has now passed Senate Bill 2621, by a vote of 68 -50, authorizing the Department of Corrections to issue sentence credits which can lead to the early release for inmates eligible under the terms of the bill. The bill will now head to Governor Pat Quinn for possible…
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Early Release to clear IL legislature! Will it clear Governor Pat Quinn???
State of the state Gov. Quinn takes a pass on early prison release plan by Jamey Dunn Instead of using what arguably was the biggest scandal during his time in office as a chance to reform a broken system, Gov. Pat Quinn stuck his head in the sand as Illinois’ prison population reached an all-time…
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IL Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability recommendations on Governor Quinn’s proposed facility closures!
No real surprise here today. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability released it’s recommendations this morning about which state facilities it believes that Governor Pat Quinn is justified in closing. The position taken by the CGFA is conservative and so, most of it’s recommendations are not likely to be high regarded by Quinn who…
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First Indication that Quinn & State of IL resolve to Address State Prison Overcrowding & Release of Prisoners
May 31, 2012, State Legislature passes new law paving way for Early Release programs! Read latest at http://richardwanke.com We previously advised readers that any return of the Meritorious Good Time Credit (MGT) which IL Governor Pat Quinn suspended in December 2009, or a new program for the early release of IL inmates would first be…
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And here is a whole program that Cook County and law enforcement wasted or abused?
Talk about white-collar crime! Local governments get enough Homeland Security money, they apparently don’t worry too much about having to account for it: Project Shield program misused? January 9, 2012 “…When you waste Homeland Security money, you are less safe … This put our citizens at risk,” U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, D-5th District, said. Quigley…
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Who says inmates aren’t worth listening to?
The problems in IL prisons are prompting a number of inmates to submit “letters to the editor” in order to let the public know what the situation is inside the Illinois Department of Corrections and to suggest ways for the State of IL to solve a few problems. We ran across two inmate letters written…