News
Appellate court throws out ‘excessive sentence’ for Chicago man denied parole over 30 times
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Ronnie Carrasquillo will be resentenced after 46 years in prison after an appellate court panel ruled he has not been given a ‘meaningful’ opportunity for parole by the state’s Prisoner Review Board. The ruling follows a 2017 Injustice Watch series, “The Long Wait,” which examined the board’s opaque process.
News
Pritzker defends denials of medical release requests from dying and disabled prisoners
“We’re not just going to push everybody out the door just because there’s somebody who complains that we haven’t done it the way they would like it done,” Gov. JB Pritzker said in response to an Injustice Watch and WBEZ investigation.
Prisons and Jails
Dying and disabled Illinois prisoners kept behind bars, despite new medical release law
The Joe Coleman Medical Release Act was expected to have freed hundreds of terminally ill and medically incapacitated prisoners in Illinois by now. But only a few dozen have been released, an investigation from Injustice Watch and WBEZ reveals.
Commentary
It’s time to make Illinois courts subject to the public-records law
By Jonah Newman |
For decades, Illinois courts have written themselves out of the state’s Freedom of Information Act. A new bill could change that and bring much-needed transparency to the court system.
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