James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.
Tag: Pontiac Correctional Center
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9,008 days
In 2016, more than 2,000 adults who were sent as kids to die in prison were given a second chance. Marshan Allen was one of them.
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Hundreds of Illinois prisoners languish behind bars waiting for Dorothy Brown to do her job
The court clerk lost the records of James Allen, who’s fighting to overturn convictions that put him in prison 30 years ago. His case is not unique.
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“There was no possibility in their mind that I didn’t do it”
Andre Davis was sentenced to 80 years for an unforgivable crime. Two decades later, someone finally started taking his innocence claims seriously.
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When death row and dog cages are a step up in the world
In Pontiac, former Tamms inmates are experiencing a new luxury: they can see the person they’re talking with.
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The House of Suh
Iris Shim explores the motives and consequences of 19-year-old Andrew Suh’s murder of his sister’s fiancé Robert O’Dubaine in Bucktown in 1993, in her documentary “House of Suh,” screening 4/9 and 4/13 in the Asian American Showcase at the Gene Siskel Film Center.