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Tag: Illinois Department of Corrections

Illinois Senate committee focuses on criminal sentencing reforms

Illinois Senate committee focuses on criminal sentencing reforms

— September 16, 2020

SPRINGFIELD — The second state Senate committee hearing spurred by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus’ recently unveiled legislative agenda focused on criminal justice reforms…

  • IDOC: Safety guidelines are followed on inmate transfers

    IDOC: Safety guidelines are followed on inmate transfers

    — August 27, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD — A state appellate court has overturned a Logan County court order that required state prisons to accept inmates from county jails. It’s the latest action in a lawsuit…

  • Pritzker faces questioning on prison sentence commutations

    Pritzker faces questioning on prison sentence commutations

    — April 21, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Senate Republicans are calling for greater communication from the governor’s office when he commutes prison sentences, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker has not indicated…

  • Prison director wants to turn page on censorship

    Prison director wants to turn page on censorship

    — July 16, 2019

    The removal of nearly 200 books from an Illinois prison’s library has put censorship in the state’s correctional centers in the spotlight. Books removed earlier this year from the…

  • Jobs Partnership offers a second chance for former female inmates

    Jobs Partnership offers a second chance for former female inmates

    — March 16, 2016

    At first glance, Theresa Matthews and Heather Yohnka look like typical working class women successfully juggling the responsibilities of life.   They’ll be the first to tell…

  • Sheriffs’ Association says Pritzker prisoner transfer order ineffective

    Sheriffs’ Association says Pritzker prisoner transfer order ineffective

    — July 30, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD — While Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a new executive order this week allowing for transfers into state prisons at the discretion of the Illinois Department of Corrections…

  • Labyrinth program helps women rebound after prison

    Labyrinth program helps women rebound after prison

    — September 2, 2019

    Nicole Williamson shudders to think where she would be without the YWCA McLean County’s Labyrinth program. “I don’t know where I’d be at all,” Williamson pondered a recent…

  • Program simplifies career path for prison barber school graduates

    Program simplifies career path for prison barber school graduates

    — April 20, 2016

    Cutting hair can be a path to a second chance, believes Larry Roberts Jr. Roberts, 43, is Chicago’s proprietor of Larry’s Barber College locations and works as a barber instructor…

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