Dem Legislators Push Gov to Abandon Prison Closures
At a press conference Monday, the lawmakers said that closing the six facilities -- including Joliet's Illinois Youth Center -- would make the remaining prisons unsafe.
Several Democratic legislators held a news conference Monday to urge Gov. Pat Quinn to back off plans to close a half dozen prison facilities, including the Illinois Youth Center in Joliet.
The lawmakers stressed the potential safety problems that will arise from the further overcrowding of a prison system that already houses nearly 16,000 more inmates than it was designed to accommodate, according to a story written by The Associated Press.
"Closing prisons in a system that's already overcrowded, it's illogical to say that's possible or safe," Sen. Michael Frerichs told The Associated Press. It has double the 900 inmates for which it was designed.
Sen. Pat McGuire (D-Joliet) told the AP Monday that Joliet's Illinois Youth Center is the only place in the state devoted to the worst juvenile offenders.
Quinn announced the prison closures as a way to save money in a budget that has a huge deficit and has been adamant in his refusal to reverse his position. However, the jail employees' union, AFSCME, has won a temporary restraining order stopping the closure until the safety issues are addressed per the union contract.
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John Roberts
9:03 am on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
How about we quit locking kid up in this prison that keep running away..There is a good start for the over population problem,How about we quit making Private prisons where the owners of the prisons make big money and paying lobbyists to go to congress and having people locked up for non violent offenses while the prison gets paid $42,000 per- inmate...people better wake up,how about going to some of the parents that had their kids locked up and ask them why..I know 3 kids that were put onto this youth center for running away...because their parents were too busy with their own lives to deal with their kids...all the crap they did their kids did and they didn't like it.Once introduce to the system they stay in the system.labeling them for life.No job,no future...only prison to look forward to...
SKonopka
6:11 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The young adults at IYC Joliet are not there as "run always". They are convicted of murder, rape, criminal sexual assault to children, aggravated battery against handicap/senior citizen, multiple weapons charges, manufacturing/ delivery of controlled substances, vehicle hijacking etc. We do not house "run always".
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