Gee, You Think?
When you're down 13% in the polls, a little obvious introspection isn't always the best way to go:
- A panel commissioned to assess Gov. Pat Quinn's troubled inmate early-release program found Friday that the administration pursued an "ill-conceived" path that traded protecting public safety for saving $3.4 million.
To fix the problems, the state should overhaul its good-time-credit system to require inmates stay in prison at least 60 days, allow officials to revoke such credit for bad behavior and let crime victims and law enforcement officials object to early releases, the panel recommended.
The report comes nearly eight months after Quinn suspended the controversial program that let 1,745 inmates out of prison an average of 36 days early by speeding up the rate at which they earned good time credit. Some later committed additional crimes.
And the best guarded secret is exactly what crimes these 1,745 inmates committed. The vast majority were undoubtedly non-violent drug offenses, but you know there are a few doozies in there. In fact, that was what blew the lid off the entire "meritorious good time" in the first place.
"Meritorious." Where have we heard that word before?
"Meritorious." Where have we heard that word before?
Labels: dumb ideas, state politics
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
13 Comments:
Best thing that could have happened to the Illinois Republican party: Pat Quinn wining the democrat spot on the governor's election ticket. Thanks Pat.
It's all about the money and the State of Illinois lack of having enough. Not too long ago my watch commander gave the troops some interesting info. Said watch commander attended a "meeting" with an unidentified cook county judge. During which it was made clear that a case better have all the I's dotted and T's crossed or else the judges were being "instructed" to dismiss any case they could. Why would this be? Throw out a case for a minor mistake on a case report? It was related to us that the judge would not say why, only that is was coming from "higher up the chain." It's well documented the State of Illinois is in dire straits, financially broke. The judge can throw out cases one at a time and save the State the cost of housing an inmate, $23k per year. This was told to us around the same time the governor was letting out hundreds of prisoners with less than a year left on the sentences. Coincidence? I think not.
We have a choice in Nov.
Vote them all out. Dont be an idiot. VOTE!
QUINN IS A CERTIFIABLE LUNATIC.
But, fuck up downstate (south of I-80) and those SAs and Judges down there are more than happy to lay down jail time and huge fines for stuff that up here that will get one a misdemeanor charge.
McLean County is one. The city cops treat Chicago people like shit. The Sheriff is just as bad and the ISP down there will write a CPD officer for a lousy 9 over the limit on I-55.
"The vast majority were undoubtedly non-violent drug offenses"
Non-violent drug offenses? Isn't that what most of the shooting on the streets of Chicago are about gangs and drugs?
Don't fall for the liberal dope smoker's soft on crime line, Non-violent drug offenses.
This whole report is BS. Quinn ordered a judge to issue the report in December and nothing ever happened. On Wednesday, a group of Republican legislators held an informal hearing yesterday in Peoria to call out the Quinn administration’s botched early release program.
Magically, the report is issued on Friday.
Read the report. Does it identify who authorized the program, who proposed it, who signed off on it? I think NOT.
The question becomes did Quinn know what was going on? Things seem worse under Quinn than under Blagojevich - probably because Quinn kept most of Blago's staff and promoted them instead of cleaning house.
Does that mean McCotter will be out of a job?
Then that judge is part of the problem for not reporting this corruption of checks and balances. The same judges who say prisoners have a right to cable tv and no over crowding are now following what a politician says? More bs. He's part of the problem.
McLean County is one. The city cops treat Chicago people like shit. The Sheriff is just as bad and the ISP down there will write a CPD officer for a lousy 9 over the limit on I-55.
8/14/2010 08:57:00 AM
Really, thats good to know....
Anonymous said...
Does that mean McCotter will be out of a job?
no, Mccotter in line for top job-Randle out and he would head Dept of Corrections that is, if Quinn wins....a long if.....
1700+ hundred convicts released early including one who was DUI on the Stevenson, hit my sister and her friend just driving along sending both to hospital for about a week each. He was out after 18 days in of a 20 month sentence after the CCS/A office convinced my sister 20 months on a first offense was a good deal of time for him. FUCK YOU QUINN. FUCK YOU ALVAREZ. And to all of my fellow citizens, we get what we deserve with these crooks. It is not only the police that are abused by justice, Illinois style.
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