Escape Risk Designations

[Scout]

Here is a link to IDOC Administrative Directives - Escape Risk Designations


Administrative Directives - Escape Risk Designations

                        
The levels correspond to the IDs in the following manner:

Level E - Green ID
Level H - Red ID
Level M - Blue ID
Level L - White ID

[Wolf | Lover]

Thanks Scout you always deliver the goods!

[bronco_canon]

where are these IDs color ? I dont see one in his picture?

[Scout]

You won't see it on his picture, only on his actual ID.

[babybabybaby]

Scout, what are the parameters for each color of ID? I know my loved one has a blue ID. He has mentioned that he will not ever be eligible for a white because he has LWOP. Is this true.
Didn't Richard Speck have life and even the co's said he wouldn't leave prison. Do they really not look at these things on a case by case basis?

[Scout]

Lifers no longer have an option to have white.  Years ago they did.  If a lifer is somehow able to go to a medium, when they first arrive there they are a red and have to wait quite some time to become a blue. 

The whole system needs to be reclassified and to quit basing security levels and housing on crime and sentence and base it on behavior, allowing those with long sentences to move to lower level security prisons.

[Jims]

I so agree, Scout. I think one reason Bill Heirens has lived as long as he has behind bars is because he was able to benefit, early on in his incarceration, to being allowed to be at lower level prisons. Conversely, the reason why life expectancy of a lifer is much lower than the outside world is due entirely to being housed for 25, 30, 40, 50 years or more in the worst conditions imaginable.

[BlueMist]

Hi   every one ,Wanted to reply to this topic My youngest son went to prison  in 1992  him and 2 other males escape from the jail  no one saw them no one hurt, they all was in on a burglary charge He recd/26 years  10 for the escape,he was none violent on his record,The Judge took him back to court after about 6 months and had to take 4 years off his sentence she went over the limit,which left 22 so he done 11 years and had a red Id and before he was to come  home about 4 years before stateville gave him a blue Id ,He got out and went back on a burglar charge 6 months later he was on prole at the time,he recd 6 years  for the burglary this was in Aug14 2008,When they arrested him they put him in solitary confinement  at the new jail for 11 months
because of the escape 12 years before ,It was at the old jail they escaped from in 1995 they built a new jail all secure,But they said he was high risk ,,Right he was in the same room 24/7 Which was not right he paid his dues But Dick Myers who was sheriff then is still the sheriff of the new jail, The Sheriff he even had a camera put in his home to watch my son he said my son would pay for the escape,so he put him in solitary,Some of the officer said it was not right he paid his dues ,When inmates break rules at the jail then you go to solitary But my son broke none The Sheriff is a sadist and a jerk in my book,My son did not deserve that punish Just think how it would be for 11 months with nothing he lost  over 30 pounds they gave him very little to eat and my son is 6/4 and weight 220 when he went in. A sorry excuse for a sheriff,well thanks for listen I have to let steam off some where i lost my hubby  last year after 37 years and 2 sons One murdered over 30 and another died in prison from lack of medicines the state said they could afford,.My life is insane at times I need my son home as you all need your l/o home to ,Just wanted to tell you all about these things I'm not saying he should not pay his dues but that was u called for.,,.As Always Blue Mist

[jgraff49]

Dear Bluemist,
Your story is absolutely heartbreaking.  I cannot imagine the turmoil you have gone through.  My thoughts and prayers will be with you.  I hope you are atleast able to visit your son and hug him.
JG

[Ira]

An inmate also gets a blue ID if they put an imigration hold on him for some reason.

[humbird37]

Bluemist.....I can't imaging the heartbreak you have been through! I can only tell you how sorry I am....humbird