6,000 Criminals Could Be Released From Stateville Prison In Joliet, Illinois By Governor Pat Quinn - cbs2chicago.com: "CHICAGO (CBS) ― Up to 10,000 convicted criminals could soon be released early from prisons across Illinois. It's all because of the state's budget mess. Gov. Pat Quinn says cutting those prisoners loose could save more than $100 million. But at what cost to you?"
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Is that a rhetorical question?
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"I don't like it. I threw a lot of those guys in prison back in the '90s, and they probably, a number of them, belong there," said Ill. Rep. Jim Durkin.
Well let's hope that if he was responsible for putting them there that they "actually" and not "probably" were supposed have been sent there. "The 90's" also means that a "lot of those guys" have already served 10-20 years. So perhaps it's time to examine a little more closely whether they "actually" deserve to be there and for what amount of time.
I didn't know you could FIT 6,000 inmates into Stateville. What is it, some kind of GULAG complex? I thought it was just a bog-standard, standalone, high security prison.
You are right. Capacity is under 1600 and it has almost 2800. But a lot of them are doing under a year of real time. They get 12-14 month sentences as mandatory drug or weapons sentences, and do part of it. So they must mean that they will accelerate releases from Stateville. That would be a rolling release program, where they will be cutting people loose from Stateville early over the next year. Or, it could mean that they will release 6000 from the entire prison system. I suspect that is the former.
http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/facilities/information.asp?instchoice=sta
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