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| OpEd: Youth mistakes keep prison in business |
| By Chicago Sun-Times |
| Published: 11/20/2008 |
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ILLINOIS - Pardon me while I make this real plain. If you have worn your knees out trying to pray a hard-head off the corner, or if you suspect that the baggy pants and puffy jacket he is wearing are hiding a gun, maybe what I'm about to say will get through to him. Pontiac prison in Downstate Illinois is eager to welcome him. So much so, the union representing prison employees has been fighting every step of the way the state's plan to close the facility. On Monday, Scott McCoy, Pontiac's mayor, went on record with a local reporter, blasting Gov. Blagojevich and Roger Walker, director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, for Chicago's alarming murder rates. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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