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| By any measure, Illinois has a serious crime problem |
| By thesouthern.com |
| Published: 01/24/2013 |
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This newspaper is printed seven days per week, and our website, www.thesouthern.com, never sleeps. Yet there never is a time, even a brief period, when the daily news report doesn’t include information about crimes, arrests and people being sentenced to prison. The cover of Wednesday’s Local section, for example, included coverage about a West Frankfort woman suffering serious burns in a methamphetamine-related fire at her home, drug charges facing a Thompsonville man, car burglaries in Marion and an ATV crash leading to DUI charges against the driver. Perhaps you’re not impressed by anecdotal evidence. Cold, hard statistics are no more heartening. Last fall, the Illinois Department of Corrections reported there were 49,044 adults incarcerated in state penal institutions. That might not sound too steep for a state with nearly 13 million residents, but it’s far in excess of the 33,700 inmates the correctional facilities were designed to hold. Read More. |
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