Category: IL prison safety
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Cook County Jail Inmates on the Inside Starting to Agitate. What Will Happen in IL Prisons?
As one Public Defender says in the article below, things have to be pretty bad inside the County County Jail for inmates to rally together. Supporters have demonstrated outside the and the jail is under some court scrutiny but a lot more has to happen to cause the Federal court to order more jail releases.…
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Cook County Jail Attack Shows why Jails Aren’t Safe During Covid-19
While Covid-19 strikes jails and prisons, there is NO way authorities will be able to maintain sufficient staffing over time. Vulnerabilities and incidents such as this will continue as long as the jail keeps holding on to everyone instead of letting the non-violent out so there is enough staffing to keep violent inmates in order.…
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The effect of Coronavirus upon inmates in the IL Dept. of Corrections and county jails
The Coronavirus will potentially devastate IL prisons; its inmates and those in county jail throughout the state. We are compiling information about the Illinois Department of Correction’s response to the virus and county jails compared to the prisons and jails in other US states as well as the Bureau of Federal Prisons. We are also…
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Private prisons & Trump
Anybody who looks at the performance of private prisons can see that they end up costing us more, harm more people, fail to rehabilitate, and should not be used. “…Sally Yates, then the deputy attorney general, said in a memo that research had found private prisons “simply do not provide the same level of correctional…
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Article: Losing a Son in the New York State Prisons
No one should have to die just because one is sent away to prison. Yet, the story below is not new. Not everyone can withstand the mental and physical pressures of imprisonment especially when they are treated little better than warehoused cattle. We routinely see PETA and other animal rights group advertisements in print…
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John Horton of Rockford free after more than 2 decades in prison
ROCKFORD — “It’s breathtaking. Oh my goodness,” a Rockford man said after emerging from the Winnebago County Jail into the sunshine this afternoon after more than 23 years behind bars for a murder he and his supporters maintain he didn’t commit.John Horton Jr., 40, was convicted of the 1993 murder of Arthur Castaneda in Rockford.…
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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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IL Governor Pat Quinn finally motivated to implement new sentence credits and early release to resolve prison overcrowding in face of public criticism?
Governor Pat Quinn is beginning to face serious criticism for inaction regarding prison overcrowding and prison violence is escalating. So, Quinn is now claiming IDOC is implementing the new sentence credits as a way to reduce overcrowding. Yet, when Quinn first said this yesterday, an IDOC spokesperson indicated it had no firm timeline for implementation…
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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,…