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NEWS & LETTERS,
January-February 2002
Illinois prison crisis
This is the first week that all
higher education has been cancelled. The Governor of Illinois took or cut 23.2
million dollars from the Illinois Department of Corrections' budget, then
cut another 14.1 million, the entire higher ed program, throughout the I.D.O.C.
statewide. Prisoners are left starving for lack of good food and now for higher
education. The reason, from what we've
heard, is Illinois complied with an agreement with the federal government to
upgrade prison programs. The Truth in Sentencing law was part of this agreement.
Illinois took the millions and bought new cars, vans, and new CD players for all
the new cars and vans. They also bought new badges and uniforms. They stole all
the money put into inmate benefit funds. Prisoners will have to suffer. How come the I.D.O.C. has
been stealing money from John Q. Public and the State of Illinois and no one is
in prison for it? Why don't the people of this state demand an investigation
into prison mismanagement? Are the people who run Illinois' prison system that
powerful that no one can touch them? —Illinois prisoner |
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