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| Illinois Governor’s Plan to Close Juvenile Prisons Nears Completion |
| By jjie.org - Alex Nitkin and William Hicks |
| Published: 12/19/2012 |
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CHICAGO — Every morning in southern Illinois, 38 full-time prison guards board a state bus and ride 46 miles to the Illinois Youth Center and correctional facility at Murphysboro. The facility was built in 1997 with a capacity for 156 young people. But when the guards arrive for work every day, no inmates are waiting for them. Concurrent with a steady decline in youth incarceration, Murphysboro hasn’t seen an inmate in months. But a heavily disputed proposal by Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn to close Murphysboro and the under-populated juvenile facility at Joliet, consolidating their inmates with those in other facilities across the state, is nearing its final stages. “Illinois is in the middle of a fiscal crisis, and we’re finding ourselves having to cut programs all over theboard,” said Illinois assistant budget director Abdon Pallasch. “And now that our juvenile inmate population is only 943, as opposed to almost 1,700 in 1990, we just don’t need these facilities anymore.” Read More. |
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