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September, 2007
Among Latino inmates paroled from Illinois prisons during 2000, the recidivism rate was far lower for those who had served more than five years than it was for those who served less time.
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September, 2007
William Cox, 45, said his job transporting rental cars at O'Hare International Airport saved him. No one else would hire him, and his only other alternative was going back to the life that cost him seven yers in a federal penitentiary. (Photo by Mary Hanlon) Nearly three out of every five parolees in Illinois are without work---with even higher rates of joblessness on Chicago's...
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September, 2007
One morning last year, Calvin R. Mitchell Sr. went to a local dollar discount store to buy a fan and beat the July heat in his small, stuffy Uptown studio apartment. On his way back home, two police officers stopped him.
One asked, "'You got a receipt for this fan?'" Mitchell recalled. Before he could get it out of his pocket, he said, one of the cops handcuffed him. Mitchell was taken to...
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September, 2007
When Algie Crivens III was released from prison in 1999, he thought his nearly decade-long nightmare had ended. After he was convicted of a 1989 murder, a judge sentenced Crivens to 20 years in prison. But, in 1999, a federal court ruled Cook County prosecutors had withheld evidence in his 1992 trial; Crivens was retried in 2000 and found not guilty. Former Gov. George H. Ryan later pardoned him...
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September, 2007
Payouts in lawsuits involving Chicago police officers, which include traffic accidents, and property damage, peaked last year.
Source: City of Chicago Department of Law
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September, 2007
Kenny Young was charged as an adult for allegedly dealing drugs near a school. He was eventually sent back to juvenile court. But his mother, Addie, says her son is innocent and has resentment toward police. (Photo by Jason Reblando)
A series of heinous crimes committed by young people in the early 1980s spawned the idea of the super-predator. Seeing them as ruthless and unredeemable,...
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September, 2007
For more than two decades, lawmakers have supported a range of amendments to the state laws that transfer teens to adult court.
They fall into three categories:
Automatic transfers: Teens go directly to adult criminal court and are arraigned there. Judges have no discretion to send them back to juvenile court, except in low-level drug cases. Minimum age for most automatic transfers is...
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September, 2007
Each teenager was told to write a short essay: If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
Pencils scratched away at notebook paper. The writing of a skinny 15-year-old with deep-set eyes spilled over a page-and-a-half. "If I could change one thing in the world, I would be a leader like Jesus. The way I lived half of my life is not to be excepted [sic] to anybody. I would...
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September, 2007
Black and Latino teenagers are overrepresented in Cook County's juvenile justice system. That disparity is more pronounced among teens charged as adults.
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