Menard prison murder spurs state policy review
Three days after the Tribune chronicled the murder of an inmate in the Menard Correctional Center, state prison officials announced plans to review their policies in an attempt to prevent...
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Prison experts see fatal mistake
Joshua Daczewitz was a first-time inmate at a minimum-security prison when he tested positive for crack cocaine. So corrections officials transferred the pudgy, bespectacled Daczewitz to one of the state's...
Prison experts see fatal mistake
Joshua Daczewitz was a first-time inmate at a minimum-security prison when he tested positive for crack cocaine. So corrections officials transferred the pudgy, bespectacled Daczewitz to one of the state's...
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Joshua Daczewitz was a first-time inmate at a minimum-security prison when he tested positive for crack cocaine. So corrections officials transferred the pudgy, bespectacled Daczewitz to one of the state's...
Gang leader gets 20 years
Ignoring a plea by a prosecutor to send a signal of zero tolerance for street gangs, a federal judge Friday sentenced the "Supreme Inca," the No. 2 leader of the...
5-year-old Eric Morse’s killers: Growing up behind bars
As he walked out of prison a free man earlier this month, Jessie Rankins barely greeted his wife, exchanging only a few words without kissing or hugging her. He hadn't...
Boys were raised behind bars
As he walked out of prison a free man earlier this month, Jessie Rankins barely greeted his wife, exchanging only a few words without kissing or hugging her. He hadn't...
To some, ruling not shock
A former Chicago alderman was standing in front of U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur when the veteran jurist took federal prosecutors to task for their tactics. It happened 10 years...
A LOOK INSIDE ILLINOIS’ ONLY SUPER-MAX PRISON
Every once in a while, Joseph Dole stands in a back corner of the walled-in outdoor recreation area at Tamms Correctional Center straining to catch a ray of sunlight. "About...
Fidel muses on origin of ‘Emanuel’
You have to wonder what Rahm Emanuel thinks of Fidel Castro's column this week pondering the "strange surname" of President Barack Obama's chief of staff. "Where does it come from?"...