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| Corrections Calls Brady Claims False |
| By myfoxillinois.com |
| Published: 03/05/2010 |
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SPRINGFIELD — Bloomington Sen. Bill Brady said Gov. Pat Quinn’s early release program put an accused murderer back on the streets, but the Department of Corrections said that is not the case. Brady said the program endangered the people of Illinois, pointing to Jonathon Phillips, a 21-year-old Springfield man accused of murder. The senator claimed Phillips was released from prison on November 19 — 7 months before his scheduled release for aggravated vehicular hijacking — as part of a corrections cost-cutting policy that released thousands of criminals early. But Januari Smith with the Corrections Department said Brady’s claims are “grossly inaccurate.” Smith said Phillips was sentenced to six years behind bars in 2006 and his sentence was reduced for good behavior and the time spent in county jail awaiting trial. But Phillips was granted these reductions in October 2007 — almost two years before the department initiated the early release program. “Under Illinois law the crime that he was convicted of is eligible to receive day-for-day good time, essentially meaning when he walked into the Illinois Department of Corrections his sentence was cut in half,” she said. “He was not released through any early release program.” Read More. |
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