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Stateville may close as early as September under Pritzker prison plan
Rockford Register Star via Yahoo News· 1 day agoBut no matter what the panel decides, the Pritzker administration can go ahead with its plans so long as money is built into the state’s next budget. “I want everybody...
Gov. Pritzker declares Illinois Salvation Army Week
The Pantagraph· 3 days agoIllinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has declared this week, May 13-19, as Illinois Salvation Army Week.
Officials lay out ambitious timeline for closing, rebuilding Stateville, Logan prisons
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSPRINGFIELD — Illinois prison officials Friday indicated Stateville Correctional Center could close...
Prison closures could cause hundreds of jobs to leave the Central Illinois
The Center Square· 7 days agoIllinois Department of Corrections Acting Director Latoya Hughes said the plan is to close Logan...
What “Justice” Looks Like in Greg Abbott's Texas
Vanity Fair· 2 hours agoTexas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday issued a pardon to Daniel Perry, the man who murdered a Black Lives Matter demonstrator in 2020 after repeatedly...
California Democrats want Gavin Newsom to close more prisons over cutting child care, welfare
The Sacramento Bee· 2 days agoCalifornia Democrats worried about deeper child care and social safety net cuts in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget want the state to instead close more prisons. Assemblyman ...
Does the DOJ target more Republicans than Democrats? Here’s the data
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe long-standing allegation from former President Donald Trump is that President Joe Biden has...
Gerald Reed's long legal saga in 1990 double murder in Chicago ends with not-guilty finding
Chicago Sun-Times· 2 days agoThe same year....B. Pritzker commuted Reed’s life sentence in the killings to “time served” because of health risks he faced in prison during the coronavirus pandemic, and ...
California is spending more on fewer inmates. Why isn’t Newsom closing more prisons?
Napa Valley Register· 6 days agoGov. Gavin Newsom is recommending small cuts to the state prison system, avoiding the closures of...
AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says
Ars Technica· 3 days agoThe US government has provided more detail on how a former AT&T executive allegedly bribed a...