Illinois Prisons Overcrowded

[rottiemama2003]

  Is he tired?

[lbattle40]

  kinda hard 2 get tired from doing nuthin.   

[veracity]

Depression can make someone really tired. I'd be all depressed knowing I was going to lose my job come election time. I'd be even more depressed if I thought I could end up like Blago or Ryan or Walker. 

[rottiemama2003]

Ibattle: you know the expression he is tired not fatigued, not doing his job... How is the family doing? How is your son, I think about him often.

[TeArSInThErAiN]

Does anyone know why quinn says that he will veto anything that comes from the legislators about good time??

[Marks_guy]

Does anyone know why quinn says that he will veto anything that comes from the legislators about good time??

Mostly because he is throwing a temper tantrum. The legislature rejected HIS budget, and proceeded to adopt one of their own.

[drgnldy]

"Corrections, they use to produce their own milk, they use to have their own cattle operation. There's a lot of things they could do to not only produce better food, locally, and distribute it through the prison system, we could save money by doing that," Cultra said.

In the Wisconsin prison system, there are 2 farms. They milk 420 cows around the clock and also have a steer feedlot, a cash crop, and a creamery that provides milk and ice cream to the DOC inmates. All the work is done by inmates. Female inmates run the 3rd shift milking operations. I couldn't find anything that reported how much money is saved in the long run, but it has to save some for the state to continue the operations.

[jenplus2]

Thank you for posting that, drgnldy, it's good to know some states aren't completely ass backwards. Something that makes sense is foriegn to IDOC. And the concept of anything that makes sense is too difficult for Illinois politicians to comprehend.

[fromcolorado]

This is already industry work in IDOC. Menard (on the Hill) makes several of the turkey-soy products served in prison. So does Vandalia. Illinois River makes most of the baked desserts for the system. Centralia does the juices and they make the socks and underwear. Several institutions already have gardens such as Pittsfield WC. Tamms sells their hay from the fields. There definitely could be more work going on inside the system, but this is a mostly a smokescreen.

[bmonska]

This is already industry work in IDOC. Menard (on the Hill) makes several of the turkey-soy products served in prison. So does Vandalia. Illinois River makes most of the baked desserts for the system. Centralia does the juices and they make the socks and underwear. Several institutions already have gardens such as Pittsfield WC. Tamms sells their hay from the fields. There definitely could be more work going on inside the system, but this is a mostly a smokescreen.

HUbby said even with the garden at Pittsfield, they hardley ever pick much of anything. He said once they had them pick some brocolli but it wasn't even really ready to be picked yet. He said it's really under-utilized unfortunately.

[rottiemama2003]

Menard, use to have cattle and they would feed their prison, Statesville  farm once feed them.

[siouxchief77]

Hey Rick I agree with you on just about everything my son is in taylorville he got laid off and insurance lasp he got a ticket in clinton county, that judge gave him probation he was doing everything he was suppose to do he got his drivers license back after the judge suspended it,had it three months the judge resuspended it, my son didnot get notified the police in breese pulled up behind him at the bank arrested him driving on a suspended license and the judge sentenced him to two years right after the public defender pulled us in a room and told us he was going to do thirty days in the county jail I even got on the stand and begged him not to I just had major surgery and my husband is disabled and wheel chair bound I need him at home that judge all but called us liars and it made no difference non violent traffic offense I have lost all respect for the law now my son is a felon.

[Sunidaze67]

Our state is nothing but farmland.  If they allowed them to farm it they would eat better, save money on soy, and they would get outside more often.  Work off that frustration that can cause other problems.  Seems like a fair trade to me.  
Suni

[veracity]

I'm sorry for your son Sioux. Luckily he has you to help him through the injustice. No judges/politicians want to be viewed as soft on crime so the sentencing is out of control. Guys are working & getting their lives together, the offense happened long ago yet we send them to prison at taxpayer expense in the name of winning an election. It's supposed to be about justice and public safety!!

We were told probation for sure. My son had a good job and the alledged crime occurred at age 17.
 2 1/2 years before he was sentenced, 1st time felon. Had never even been on probation. Friends, family and neighbors drove 100+ miles and got up so early that morning. They spoke of his kindness and need to help others and numerous animal rescues. I told the judge how we'd just lost my husband, his dad to a brain aneurysm and how my son was at risk for one, too due to family history. Showed his paperwork telling him my son needs to be screened for them. How I'd just purchased a home and needed help. How he really stepped it up and became a man since his dad died. But there was the one aggravating factor that no one mentioned.
TO DETER OTHERS. 5 YEARS. I was in a complete state of shock. Still am kinda. I actually can handle my husbands sudden death better than my son's wrongful conviction. Death is natural. We'll all have to face that someday but to be wrongfully convicted is just something that's not supposed to happen. I am a little paranoid now. Went out last weekend and had A beer. Was scared driving home. Knowing what they can do to you is almost terrifying. Still trying to keep hope in the system though.