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State’s budget inspires confusing claims
By daily-chronicle.com - The ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 02/27/2012

Illinois -- Prison population declining?

Illinois prisons are overcrowded – dangerously so, according to the union that represents guards. The most recent Department of Corrections report shows 48,620 inmates crammed into space designed for 33,704.

So when Quinn proposed closing two prisons and six halfway houses, a natural question was how the remaining institutions could absorb those people.

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