Tag: Illinois Department of corrections
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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 Signs SB 2621 into Law Today! Effective Immediately, it will still take time to implement!
Full Text of Press Release from State of IL, Governor Pat Quinn’s Office website Governor Quinn Signs Laws to Improve Public Safety and Criminal Justice in Illinois New Laws Will Crack Down on Crime; Continue to Manage Prison Population and Encourage Positive Behavior CHICAGO – June 22, 2012. Governor Pat Quinn today signed several new laws…
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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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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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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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As Expected: IL State Facility Shut-downs Averted!!!
Well, the IL General Assembly Fall Veto Session is finally over! IL legislators tonight completed Governor Pat Quinn’s job and by reallocating the money in the IL current state budget they worked out a deal to avoid Quinn’s threatened shut-down for seven state facilities and the proposed lay-offs of over 1900 state employees. They also…
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Where the Closures of State Facilities presently stand…
There are only three days left in the IL General Assembly Veto Session for 2011. Legislators are working behind the scenes now to prepare for when they return on November 8, 2011. At least one issue; the gambling expansion, seems to be stymied. Although a bill has been drawn up to dumb down the proposed…
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IL Governor Pat Quinn emerging as the loser in IL Veto session
The State of IL has problems. The August 2011, headline below sums up the situation. IL is fiscally broken, and the governor and the legislature have placed themselves in the position of having only three days this week to fix the 2010 budget enough to advance to the next year’s budget. Illinois Statehouse News: Illinois…
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IL Prisontalk finally posts realistic message to members about MGT
Illinois prisontalk (IPT) is critical of anyone spreading rumors about when Meritorious Good Time (MGT) credit is likely to return for IL prisoners. IPT doesn’t want to create false expectations among IL inmates and their families. This past Spring session, however, IPT online forum leaders succumbed to temptation and disregarded IPT’s own goal. IPT engaged…