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| Judge Denies Emergency Order For Inmates Seeking New Parole Hearings |
| By peoriapublicradio.org- Brian Mackey |
| Published: 04/21/2016 |
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A Sangamon County judge has declined to give a group of Illinois prisoners a new parole hearing — at least for now. The case has to do with a formal process for assessing how much of a risk certain prisoners pose. The Department of Corrections was supposed to have this risk-assessment tool in place by 2013. But three years later, it’s just now beginning to roll it out. A pair of the state’s longest serving inmates have sued over the delays. The other inmate is Joseph Hurst, age 72, who was convicted of the 1967 murder of a Chicago police officer. Both men are serving indeterminate sentences of up to 300 years.They are Harrison Chancy, age 57 now, but 19 when he was arrested for participating in a burglary in which the homeowner was shot in the head and later died of his injuries. Chancy maintains his innocence. Read More. |
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