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Former Gov. George Ryan has finished a year of supervision following his release from home confinement last summer after a prison sentence for corruption…
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Not long ago, it seemed every time a different type of crime started making the news, members of the Illinois General Assembly would rush to increase the…
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When a September meeting of one of Illinois’ many obscure government oversight commissions turned into a discussion about the proper seasoning blend for…
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The Congressman's Fabulous Fall: He's Not Even the First Congressman from IL to Go to Federal PrisonHis predecessor in the U.S. House, Mel Reynolds, went to jail in the mid-’90s, being convicted of bank fraud and having sex with a 16-year-old girl. But…
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A Republican candidate for governor is once again calling for Illinois to change the way it manages major facilities, like prisons and developmental…
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More and more prisoners in Illinois are being served brunch, eating two meals a day instead of three. Prison officials say it's actually better for many…
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Gray, bleak and desensitizing. Hope-draining and soul-crushing. That is how some who have entered the walls of the state’s super-maximum-security prison…
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The litany was depressingly familiar: overcrowded, understaffed, with limited access to medical and psychiatric treatment, rehabilitative services,…
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Lori Williams spent 18 months in a state prison on a drug conviction. But the 49-year-old Macon County resident says her time behind bars in the late…
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Gov. Pat Quinn plans to lay off as many as 1,000 prison workers at the same time a recent state audit reveals that staffing shortages within the Illinois…