Recent News About Illinois Prisoner Review Board
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SPRINGFIELD – Paula Sims, who murdered her infant daughters, achieved release from prison by writing a law that made her actions less horrible.
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SPRINGFIELD – Governor JB Pritzker, content for three years to let Prisoner Review Board members serve without Senate confirmation, suddenly declared confirmation “vitally important” on March 15.
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SPRINGFIELD – Governor JB Pritzker, content for three years to let Prisoner Review Board members serve without Senate confirmation, suddenly declared confirmation “vitally important” on March 15.
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SPRINGFIELD – Nominees of Gov. JB Pritzker hold 10 of 14 seats on the Prisoner Review Board while the Senate stalls on their confirmation.
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SPRINGFIELD – State Sen. Jason Plummer (R-Vandalia) urges Illinoisans to speak out against “left-wing policies that allow violent criminals to roam free.”
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Republican candidate for Madison County State's Attorney Tom Haine attacked the record of rival Democrat Crystal Uhe, first assistant State's Attorney, saying that 90 percent of clemency requests from convicted felons since last year went "completely unopposed."
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A former candidate who is suing Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan and some of his supporters for allegedly using political tricks to sabotage his campaign, is now locked in a fight in Chicago federal court to secure the release of a 2014 inspector general’s report his lawyer says is needed to shed light on how the longest serving state house speaker in U.S. history and his political organization work, to help substantiate the candidate’s claims.