Quinn’s half-measures on prison openness
Gov. Quinn is finally allowing reporters into prisons. It took the threat of a federal lawsuit, but Quinn’s administration continues to throw up roadblocks to meaningful transparency.
Gov. Quinn is finally allowing reporters into prisons. It took the threat of a federal lawsuit, but Quinn’s administration continues to throw up roadblocks to meaningful transparency.
As a young man Juan Rivera confessed to raping and murdering an 11-year-old Waukegan, Illinois, girl, Holly Staker. But recent DNA testing excluded him as the source of a semen sample taken from the victim. Despite the DNA exclusion Rivera’s third trial ended in a conviction. Lake County Prosecutor Mike Mermel had argued the 11-year-old victim had been sexually active with someone else earlier on the day of her murder.
Chicago aldermen feasted on politically hot chicken sandwiches at City Hall on Friday.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is allowing reporters into prisons but it took the threat of a federal lawsuit from WBEZ, and Quinn’s administration continues to block meaningful transparency.
He said police field calls such as kids fighting over the remote or not eating their mashed potatoes.
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy used his time at a police budget hearing Wednesday to push for a new state gun law.
A new lawsuit likens procedures used in Illinois to revoke parole for juveniles to “kangaroo courts” that unlawfully detain more than 1,000 young people each year.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is touting the arrest of two dozen drug dealers but the busts aren’t actually about drugs.
Despite investigations and Burge’s conviction, men who gave tortured confessions remain in prison.