As Illinois prisons accelerated releases during the pandemic, many were forced into crowded, unmonitored residential reentry centers across Cook County.
Tag: Illinois Department of Corrections
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‘I wasn’t sentenced to die’
As COVID-19 spreads through Illinois prisons, inmates and advocates seek clemencies and medical furloughs to save lives.
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Why the nationwide strike against ‘modern-day slavery’ may not reach Illinois. And why it’s already here.
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?
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
Tamms Correctional Center was Illinois’s only supermax prison. The Reader may have played a part in shutting it down.
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AG Sessions won’t commit to a consent decree to enforce CPD reforms, hasn’t read DOJ report, and other Chicago news
Also, attending an upcoming Paul Ryan fund-raiser in Chicago could cost you up to $50,000.
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Illinois’s prison population dropped 9.1 percent under Rauner, and other Chicago news
Also, it was so cold Sunday that Chicago Bears QB Matt Barkley was wearing a wet suit under his uniform.
Posted inNews & Politics
The misunderstood sex offender
Laws geared toward the most rare of sex crimes fail to address the most common
Posted inNews & Politics
The misfire
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
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.
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Tamms reforms on the way?
State representative Julie Hamos is pushing for reforms at the Tamms supermax prison.