Righting systemic wrongs of Illinois prisons

Source Chicago Reader
Original Load Date Dec. 3, 2025, 2:01 p.m.
Last Updated Dec. 3, 2025, 2:01 p.m.
Original URL https://chicagoreader.com/news/on-prisons/opinion-illinois-prison-parole-clemenc/

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For far too long, Illinois politicians have been playing politics with people’s lives in the criminal legal system. (I do not call it the criminal justice system because there is no justice in it.). They have used the “tough-on-crime” myth to get elected, claiming that the best way to deter crime is...