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After hundreds protested outside the jail Thursday morning, the Cook County Board of Commissioners advanced a non-binding resolution to shift funds from policing and incarceration to public services.
State prisons now hold an even larger proportion of Black and Latinx prisoners than before COVID-19 hit, according to a new analysis.
“Reform is a perfectly warm, comforting blanket. It is comfortable and sedating. But it also smothers.”
“I guess they wanted to make an example out of us,” said Shantee Mason-Tanzie, one of 26 people arrested after alleged looting in Champaign County on May 31.
Curtis Ferdinand dreamt of freedom for 24 years. But he never imagined getting out of prison at a time like this, amid a public health crisis and racial unrest.
Clashes between police and protesters have led to a large number of allegations of police misconduct. The Chicago Reporter originally published this story.
After arresting hundreds of protesters over the weekend, Chicago police obstructed attorneys’ access to their clients in custody, lawyers and activists said.
Billy Smith’s 2017 death highlighted broader problems at Elmore Correctional Facility, an overcrowded and understaffed prison with a history of abusive, neglectful managers.
Chief Judge Timothy Evans’s order will leave open the possibility that normal court operations could resume earlier, once conditions are in place to do so safely.
The dispute marks the latest clash in the ongoing battle over Lamar Johnson’s case, which could determine the future of prosecutor-led conviction integrity units in the state of Missouri.