Sixty-One Years?

There's obviously some word coming down through the Courts to apply maximum sentences on criminals, especially if the crime was committed on the CTA:

• For nearly a year, Isaac Anderson worked as a security guard at some of the city’s biggest annual events. That career, and whatever Anderson hoped to achieve with the rest of his life, derailed on an October morning in 2022 when he murdered a man aboard a Red Line train, a killing prosecutors said was sparked by Anderson’s desire to have the victim’s Pepsi.

  Jurors needed just three hours in June to find Isaac Anderson, 30, guilty of the slaying. On Thursday, Judge Angela Munari-Petrone handed down his sentences: 55 years for murder plus a consecutive five years for robbery. By law, he will have to serve all of the murder term plus half of the robbery sentence before being eligible for release.

After the President made it a point to mention the out the out-of-control CTA crime numbers and threaten to withhold Federal monies since Conehead wasn't actually spending anything on security measures to deter crime, there's been an upsurge in sentences.

We can't recall the last time we saw a sixty year sentence handed down.