Members of a legislative review panel agree that two aging prisons need to be replaced. But they contended on Friday that Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration needs to provide details. The bipartisan commission couldn’t vote on its concerns because it lacked a quorum, with just three of 12 members appearing.
FILE - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker addresses the crowd on June 28, 2023, at the Old Post Office in Chicago . Members of a legislative review panel agree that Gov. J.B. Pritzker ’s proposal to replace Logan and Stateville prisons makes senses, but they said Friday, June 14, 2024, that the administration needs to provide more details. FILE - The front entrance of Stateville Correctional Center is shown, Sept. 2, 2009, in Crest Hill, Ill. Members of a legislative review panel agree that Gov. J.B.
“This is really a concept and not a plan,” said state Sen. David Koehler, a Peoria Democrat and co-chairperson of the commission. “What we’ve been presented with is the concept of replacing and building new facilities. But nothing has been worked out in terms of what, when and where.”No one from the Pritzker administration attended the meeting. The Democrat added $900 million in the upcoming state budget to replace the facilities.
They argued that it would disrupt families by moving workers to other prisons and, they fear, jeopardize safety by moving inmates to inappropriate cellblocks for their threat level. Counselors and teachers — including from Chicago-area universities, who conduct classes inside the walls — worry their programs would be dismantled.
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