Tag: Quinn’s proposed closures
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“…state’s dangerously overcrowded prisons have no margin for error.”
Governor Pat Quinn just signed the State budget cuts and still plans to close prisons despite IDOC inmate overcrowding, poor prison conditions and now natural disaster strikes due to weather conditions! What’s next? Storm damage forces inmate transfer from Dixon “…SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Storm damage forced the transfer of dozens of maximum-security, mentally ill…
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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 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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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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First day of the end of IL Legislative Veto Session
IL legislators have begun tackling several major issues in this first day of the end of the regular fall veto session. They have such a long list to get through that some legislators are already discussion an extension of this veto session later this month. Whether that will happen depends on how much momentum they…