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Protected: Update: Regarding Today’s Arrest of Richard Wanke, by Winnebago County for 2008 Murder of Greg Clark
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Protected: Six years after slaying, Richard Wanke charged in Rockford lawyer’s killing – News – Rockford Register Star – Rockford, IL
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Inmates lend a hand: Partnership forms to fight local floodwaters
April 11, 2014 1:00 am • By Becky Malkovich0 DU QUOIN — A collaboration between state and private entities put 12,000 sandbags in reach of those affected by flooding — at no cost to taxpayers. Inmates at the Illinois Department of Corrections Inmate Impact Incarceration Program in Du Quoin shoveled about 126 tons of sand…
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Proposed bill would release elderly state prisoners early – The Times: Local
Legislation to release certain older inmates from state prison early is once again moving through the Illinois General Assembly. Rep. Arthur Turner, D-Chicago, proposed a bill that would make long-time prisoners who are older than 50 and have served more than 25 years eligible to be considered for early release. The legislation would allow prison…
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IDOC reps explain overtime, inmate population numbers – WREX.com – Rockford’s News Leader
$60 million. In 2013, that’s how much Illinois spent on overtime for those working where criminals serve time, Department of Corrections employees. Like workers in many industries, some corrections workers pick up slack, working overtime when others are sick, on leaves of absence or just off-site. It’s actually a requirement, in the IDOC’s contract with…
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Ruling could mean early release – News – The Register-Mail – Galesburg, IL
CHICAGO AP — Dozens of inmates serving life without parole in Illinois for murders they committed when they were juveniles were given a chance at freedom Thursday when the state Supreme Court granted them new sentencing hearings. The 16-page opinion stemmed from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2012 decision that mandatory life sentences without parole for…
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UPDATE: New Parolee Proposal
UPDATE: The Illinois Department of Corrections says a new parole proposal, would in fact bring more than 200 ex-offenders back to Rockford. Tom Shaer, Communications Officer for IDOC, says Winnebago County currently has 202 fewer parolees living there than it would under this proposed legislation. State Rep. John Cabello introduced the new parole proposal today.…
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Courthouse News Service
By JEFF D. GORMAN CN – In a case that “illustrates the often arbitrary gaps in the legal remedies … for violations of federal constitutional rights,” the 7th Circuit said it could not advance the claims of a “victim of serious institutional neglect of, and perhaps deliberate indifference to, his serious medical needs.” “The problem…
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9 Calif. law enforcement agencies connected to cellphone spying technology
Michael Bott, and Thom Jensen, News 10 10:54 p.m. EST March 6, News10 submitted numerous public records requests to every major law enforcement agency in Northern California to find out which departments are using StingRay technology. A StingRay is a device law enforcement uses to track people and collect real time data from every cellphone…
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Evidence of concealed deal with witness raises questions in Texas execution case | Dallas Morning News
In the 10 years since Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham after convicting him on charges of setting his house on fire and murdering his three young daughters, family members and death penalty opponents have argued that he was innocent. Now newly discovered evidence suggests that the prosecutor in the case may have concealed a deal…