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Fast-Track Deportations

Thousands are being deported without a chance to appear before an immigration judge.

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Role Reversal

May, 2005 State officials believe tighter supervision and case management will keep parolees from going back to prison. But, without adequate jobs and services, some say the initiative will fall short.

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In the Spotlight

Sarah KarpState officials believe tighter supervision and case management will keep parolees from going back to prison. But, without adequate jobs and services, some say the initiative will fall short.
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Inside Stories

New Slavery

A century and a half after the end of the Civil War, labor and sexual slavery still exist in the form of human trafficking.> Read More

Round Trip

The Illinois Department of Corrections projects that nearly 40,000 people will be released from state prisons during the current fiscal year, the most ever in Illinois. As the number of inmates released from prison has grown steadily the past decade, so have the percentages of those individuals who return to prison.> Read More

'Gotcha' Mentality

During the last five years, when Illinois has increased its number of parole officers, the number of parolees sent back to prison for technical violations, like testing positive for drugs, has increased.> Read More