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Tag: Illinois Department of Corrections

Posted inColumns & Opinion

A new, deadly COVID outbreak in an Illinois prison

by Anthony Ehlers January 12, 2022December 21, 2022

An update from inside Stateville Correctional Center

Willie Jones outside the Elite Houses of Sober Living's facility in Chicago Heights
Posted inNews & Politics

‘I’ll be the first to die’

by Michael Murney June 17, 2021August 18, 2021

As Illinois prisons accelerated releases during the pandemic, many were forced into crowded, unmonitored residential reentry centers across Cook County.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

‘I wasn’t sentenced to die’

by Max Blumenthal April 7, 2020August 18, 2021

As COVID-19 spreads through Illinois prisons, inmates and advocates seek clemencies and medical furloughs to save lives.

Posted inBlogs

Why the nationwide strike against ‘modern-day slavery’ may not reach Illinois. And why it’s already here.

by Maya Dukmasova August 25, 2018August 18, 2021

IDOC’s job opportunities are so few and repression of organizing so intense that few inmates may be joining the nationwide labor strike. That doesn’t mean they’re not resisting.

Posted inNews & Politics

Officials hope much-hyped drug can slow state’s opioid crisis, but is it worth the costs?

by Bill Myers May 16, 2018August 18, 2021

Vivitrol, which costs $1,000 an injection, shows some hope in treating addicts but its aggressive marketing has come under fire, and the drug is not without risks.

Posted inBlogs

Life inside a supermax prison

by Maya Dukmasova April 25, 2018August 18, 2021

Tamms Correctional Center was Illinois’s only supermax prison. The Reader may have played a part in shutting it down.

Posted inBlogs

AG Sessions won’t commit to a consent decree to enforce CPD reforms, hasn’t read DOJ report, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd March 1, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, attending an upcoming Paul Ryan fund-raiser in Chicago could cost you up to $50,000.

Posted inBlogs

Illinois’s prison population dropped 9.1 percent under Rauner, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd December 19, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, it was so cold Sunday that Chicago Bears QB Matt Barkley was wearing a wet suit under his uniform.

Posted inBlogs

Prisoner roundup

by Sam Worley January 26, 2012August 19, 2021

A few new articles and reports about the U.S. prison system

Posted inNews & Politics

The misunderstood sex offender

by Sam Worley December 8, 2011August 19, 2021

Laws geared toward the most rare of sex crimes fail to address the most common

Posted inNews & Politics

The misfire

by Mick Dumke June 16, 2011August 19, 2021

Chicago’s tough gun law was supposed to help officials track who’s acquiring guns and who’s misusing them. So far it’s doing neither.

Posted inBlogs

Opposing the opposition to reform

by Mick Dumke May 22, 2009August 19, 2021

State rep Julie Hamos was among the first to raise concerns about Tamms supermax prison; now she’s pushing for campaign finance reform. Sounds like she’s running for higher office.

Posted inBlogs

Tamms reforms on the way?

by Mick Dumke May 30, 2008August 19, 2021

State representative Julie Hamos is pushing for reforms at the Tamms supermax prison.

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