Tag: Illinois Department of corrections
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No Action On IDOC Meritorious Good Time, (MGT) Expected in 2011!
May 31, 2012, State Legislature passes new law paving way for Early Release programs! Read latest at http://richardwanke.com Forget about the IL Fall Veto Session beginning October 25, 2011. The veto session is going to be consumed by budget issues. No decisions made will resolve the horrible prison over-crowding in Illinois. If Meritorious Good Time…
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September 2011 & Trouble comes to River City
First of all, readers are advised not to panic! Websites are awash with concerned readers. There is some heavy politiking going on at the state level in Springfield right now with the Governor making threats and noises about cutting state employees and facilities. It is just NOISE and Pat Quinn positioning himself. What will come…
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Illinois headed toward a prison meltdown?
The article below is written by Kurt Erickson and appears on http://www.thesouthern.com. Erickson is one of the few politically savy Illinois media investigative reporters who have been following the long saga and potentially embarrassing story of Illinois Governor Pat Quinn’s single-handled responsibility for creating a huge fiscal mess for Illinois when he first cut off…
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Growing Evidence That Prosecutors & Courts Are Often Wrong
Prosecutors are under pressure to obtain convictions at any cost; it does not seem to matter much to them whether or not a suspect is guilty. Once prosecutors charge an individual, police seldom continue to look for other suspects and the prosecutors push ahead to try to convict in court. Often evidence arises during or…
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“…We’ve got to decide who we’re mad with, and who we’re afraid of.”
If even Mississippi has discovered that it cannot afford to imprison everyone, then when are we in Illinois going to get the message? Why Mississippi Is Reversing Its Prison Policy “… the incarceration boom appears to be reversing. Between 2008 and 2009, state prison populations fell slightly, by 0.3%, to 1.4 million, the first such…
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Meritorious Good Time Credits: The Buck Stops At IL Governor Pat Quinn
May 31, 2012, State Legislature passes new law paving way for Early Release programs! Read latest at http://richardwanke.com Please note: when contacting Quinn’s office by phone, you will speak with a staffer, who will first try to feed you the line “THEY” haven’t let us know anything about when it will come back or what is…
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ILprisontalk.com apparently halts legislative campaign
The ILprisontalk.com website was down all day and just recently came back up tonight. While it was down, the website administrators removed all mention of and posts of the campaign ILprisontalk.com waged since May 25, 2011, during which it urged it’s readers to contact legislators and urge them to pass the four pending bills dealing…
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Effort by IL Prisontalk regarding MGT? Is it Wise?
Attention: This evening IL prisontalk (IPT) sent a letter to all it’s members advising them the contact their local representatives and get them to sign on to sponsor and pass four bills which have stagnated in the IL General Assembly this session and which are in danger of not passing due to lack of support…
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Proposed Murderers Registry Law for IL is not in the public interest!
Illinois has become a very punitive state for convicted individuals. Over the past 10 years, with the tacit approval of state voters, our state politicians have passed many laws which have rapidly ratcheted up the severity level of punishments dealt out to those who commit a wide array of violent and even non-violent crimes. Similar…
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Prisoners Efforts Big Part of Midwest Flood Prevention!
Inmates from an IL prison load sandbags onto a truck Sunday, May 1, 2011, View 200 other photos from Midwest flood prevention efforts here. Inmates Help With Flood Relief Efforts “Our staff, facilities and the inmate work crews have been out on the front lines doing clean up and protecting communities from flood waters,” said…