Category: IL in Fiscal Ruins
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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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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…
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Critical Supreme Court Case Being Heard Now
IL is one of the 18 states supporting California’s position… Is California’s prison system cruel and unusual punishment? By Zachary Roth – Tue Nov 30, 1:03 pm ET In a major test case, lawyers for California prisoners allege their clients are kept in such overcrowded conditions that they should be released, rather than continue serving sentences that fall under…
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It’s costing Cook County too much,
and it is sending state parole violators to IDOC to save money! Jail populations drop in big cities
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IDOC Seriously Overcrowded
Illinois prison population surges to record high Backlash over Quinn’s early-release program plays role Here is the Chicago Tribune confirming what prison experts have been saying all year long: there are too many people imprisoned in IL; the State cannot afford to pay for this, and the tensions and situation is getting out of hand.…
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“Exposé Hits Hard At Death Penalty System”
If you want to find out where capital punishment stands in IL and how ineffective it is, you need to read (this article, here) and the full official report below. : CAPITAL PUNISHMENT REFORM STUDY COMMITTEE FINAL REPORT “…The report found that taxpayers spend huge sums on prosecution of an inordinate number of death-penalty cases,…
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One State Worker who SHOULD Be Fired!
Roger Walker Jr. already had the top spot as Director at the IL Department of Corrections when Pat Quinn came in as Governor. Quinn replaced Walker at IDOC when state legislators called on him to replace many Blagojevich appointees. At the time, as this Herald-Review article shows: Roger Walker reflects on tenure as Department of…
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More IDOC Contractors Say No $, No Business!
Another vendor declines to do business with Illinois “…Records show the Illinois Department of Corrections was forced to scramble this week when a vendor refused to deliver foam food trays to Menard Correctional Center because it hadn’t been paid…The St. Louis-based vendor wouldn’t discuss the contract situation Tuesday, but records show the company is owed…