The night after the first man at Stateville Correctional Center died from COVID-19, a prisoner were referring to as Harold, said he was watching the nightly news in his cell. The man was imprisoned at Stateville Correctional Center, where officials say there are now 12 men who are hospitalized, "including several requiring ventilators.". He cited the rising numbers and urged the department to act quickly because of an anticipated nationwide fall/winter surge, making a priority of prisons with large elderly populations, such as the one in Dixon. Editors Note: The print copy and a previous online version of this report contained incorrect information about the status of the constitutional amendment. More than 1,000 Illinois prisoners to be released under COVID-19 lawsuit settlement, Coronavirus live blog, March 23, 2021: COVID-19 cases ticking back up across Chicago, More Than 1,000 Medically Vulnerable IDOC Inmates to be Released Under Lawsuit Settlement. Read it here! "Obviously this is training that we wish would have been done a year ago, but at least they're doing it now," she said. The majority were nonwhite, with 24 listed as Black. Also, early release substantially accelerated the amount of crime suffered by the public, but contributed to less than 1 percent of all crimes reported in Illinois. The rate of deaths slowed tremendously after IDOC started universal testing and voluntary vaccinations of staff and inmates. Pritzker Joins Reproductive Freedom Alliance. Zach LaVine finished with a game-high 41 points, DeMar DeRozan added 21 and Patrick Beverley had a double-double with 10 rebounds and 10 assists. J.B. Pritzker in late June after serving 31 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, is an artist whose work focuses on his experience as an African American. March 23, 2021. But more than 30% of those still locked up have a projected mandatory supervised release date before Jan. 1, 2022, meaning they are due to be set free in a year or less anyway, state data shows. He just wanted to die with dignity outside of prison, at home with his family.. This on its face seems like a really nice idea but well be dealing with the negative fallout of an ill thought-out constitutional provision.. In letters and interviews, men inside the facility describe conditions they say are continuing to drive infections at the Illinois prison hardest hit by coronavirus. If you are in contact with a friend, family member, or other loved one who is currently in IDOC custody and believe that your loved one would be comfortable with you sharing their information with us. The first, Russell Sedelmaier, was convicted of a 2005 double homicide in Buffalo Grove. An Illinois lawmaker and a county sheriff are raising fresh concerns about Gov. Alan has been fighting for the rights of imprisoned people for decades and has played a key role in recent efforts to free prisoners who are locked in facilities where the coronavirus is spreading like wildfire. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections, demanding the immediate release of Illinois prisoners vulnerable to the coronavirus. Illinois has granted the early release of about 3,000 incarcerated people since March, according to IDOC data. Months later, Stateville continues to see a steady flow of new cases but has not reported a COVID-19 fatality since mid-August, according to state data through Dec. 21. State Rep. Marcus Evans, the sponsor of the amendment, said it would not change existing Illinois law but make permanent the rights workers already have. The releases follow an April 20 directive from Gov. State Sen. Steve McClure, R-Springfield, said allowing many of these inmates to be released would be unfair to the victims who cannot speak for themselves. UPLC is tracking COVID-19 cases in IDOC. Mason was freed from Pontiac Correctional Center on Nov. 25 by Gov. The federal lawsuit asked the court to issue an emergency order that would have authorized the release of roughly 13,000 state prisoners. Inmates with at least nine months of their sentence remaining who are considered low-risk will receive 60 days of good behavior credit, while those considered medium-risk will be awarded 30 days credit. The issue of early releases is a Catch-22 for Gov. HISTORICAL FILES ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO USE FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES. "(The prisoners) have provided no convincing reason for a federal court to intrude here and now -- either to issue a blanket order for the release of thousands of inmates or to superimpose a court-mandated and court-superintended process on the mechanisms currently in place to determine which IDOC inmates can and should be safely removed from prison facilities at this time," the judge wrote in his 48-page opinion. Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum security state prison for men in Crest Hill, on March 30, 2020. Officials also did not respond to a request for comment on the case. The IDOC inmate population has dropped 19% since March to about 30,000, in part because of the nearly 3,000 early releases. Amanda Antholt, one of the attorneys representing the prisoners, said the settlement will likely affect up to 1,200 inmates across Illinois prisons. The IDOC denied a Tribune open-records request for information about Bourbons death, citing confidentiality exemptions. Gray had lived behind bars for more than 40 years, serving a life sentence for hiring a relative to kill his business partner in 1978. Since then, the total number of infections has risen by more than 9,000 cases, state data shows. Lets walk through 4 main ways to get early release from prison, under the First Step Act, for an inmate to obtain early release or additional community custody He said the department has responded aggressively to a challenging public health crisis that has yet to yield. "The Joe Coleman Medical Release Act will make sure that doesn't happen to an inmate in Illinois anymore.". IDOC should view this agreement as a first step towards maximizing its power to release people from prison and reunite families. Help me. That plea, as a mother, is rough to hear.. Officials also said they are doing more to hold staff accountable if they go unmasked at work. Officials knew two weeks ago just what kind of crisis loomed outside the front doors of the sprawling Cook County Jail. Additionally, the Corrections Department will give credit for good behavior to prisoners within nine months of their release date. This is another step toward the world, the Illinois, our families deserve. But a coalition of advocacy groups that sued, brought in about 30 members of the Illinois National Guard, mandatory sentence even if no one was physically, Photos: Northwestern loses to Penn State 68-65 in overtime, Nick Niego is back as Brother Rice stuns St. Rita. by Wendy Sawyer , January 11, 2022 The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has released a lot of new data over the past few weeks that help us finally see both FILES FROM 1945 THROUGH 1969 HAVE EITHER BEEN MICROFILMED OR DESTROYED; NONE ARE AWAITING PROCESS. Like other Chicagoans, we have ideas about what the next mayor should do. Staffers are expected to be prioritized with those in the health care field and other first responders. Herman Townsell, who spent 71/2 years in prison for a 1994 home invasion, kidnapping and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and has been in and out of prison The Senate passed a bill that could allow terminally ill prisoners His wife, Susan Hertzberg, 78, still in prison, is trying to get a compassionate early release due to her age, health problems and the virus. But until now, they have not used these tools, Mills said in a statement. J.B. Pritzker said the Corrections Department has consistently, reviewed its population foreligibilityto be grantedup to 180 daysof credit and claimed they have stepped up these efforts during the pandemic. A man incarcerated at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill is among eight new deaths from the Coronavirus in Illinois, and 18 other inmates were taken to AMITA Health Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, officials said. The Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council estimated that the recidivism rate would cost taxpayers $13 billion over five years if nothing is done to decrease it. In the grievance, Tommy Ryburn, 61, said Bourbon had constant vomiting and diarrhea and was often too weak to get out of bed to take his medication or insulin shots. ACCESS TO THE SYSTEM REPORTS ON INDIVIDUALS IS GOVERNED BY ILLINOIS STATUTE, AS IS ACCESS TO SUPERVISION FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES. A bill that would create an elected school board in Chicago advanced out of a Senate committee Wednesday on an 11 to 6 vote, clearing the way for that legislation to pass through the full chamber. Read more here! The couples daughter, Julie Rittenbaugh, thinks her father caught the virus while receiving chemotherapy for cancer in the prisons medical unit. At a recent state Senate committee hearing, acting IDOC Director Rob Jeffreys acknowledged the high numbers, which he blamed in part on increased testing and said mirrors state and national trends. ", "Joe spent his life in service of others from his time in the military to his time in prison," said Jennifer Soble, Executive Director, Illinois Prison Project. The department also reopened an old housing unit that was closed in 2016 because of mold, bad plumbing and other issues. The Illinois Department of Corrections and a number of elderly and medically vulnerable prisoners seeking early release from state prisons due to COVID IDOC officials said that when the virus is spreading in communities, staff may contract it at home and bring it into prisons. Savage, a contract employee, had planned to retire in March but died on Nov. 6. She urged her colleagues to find a compromise that gets to what our children in the classroom need.. A stress fracture in his shin. March 2022 2 0Act%20v1.29.2022.pdf. 120 S Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606, United States, Box 6000, Dept F, Rockville, MD 20849, United States. gz mThHw She described a frantic several days just calling everybody at the prison, back and forth, in circles, basically. Relatives also called a nearby hospital, she said, but inmates at the hospital are listed as John Does, which added to the initial confusion. State Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, and then future state Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, on the Senate floor last year. He mentored younger men and ran an inmates chapter of the Jaycees charity, as well as other prison programs. And a dangerous backlog of people in county jails awaiting transfer would be reduced. (Family photo). ", [{"code":"en","title":"Illinois' Virtual Agent","message":"Hello"},{"code":"es","title":"Agente virtual de Illinois","message":"Hola"}]. J.B. Pritzkers decision to release inmates as the spread of COVID-19 continues in the states prisons, including questions about transparency. Sedelmaier died March 29 at age 59. Click the videos below to hear messages from Dr. John Raba and Dr. Pablo Stewart, two of ourindependent court monitors in Lippert v. Baldwin, about COVID-19 vaccines. Also this month, for those prisons where infections are soaring, both workers and inmates are being tested every three days until no new cases are identified for two weeks. That means prison medical copays must go. UNDER THE LAW EFFECTING THIS CHANGE, PRISON TERMS ARE ESTABLISHED FOR SERIOUS OFFENSES AND FOR SUPERVISED RELEASE TERMS, AND PAROLE NO LONGER EXISTS. WebPRISON-RELEASE DISCRETION AND PRISON POPULATION SIZE STATE REPORT: ILLINOIS 4 general population, for an average incremental downturn of -51 per 100,000.4 %PDF-1.3 The settlement also calls for the department to apply good behavior credits to inmates who are eligible for those credits and have at least nine months left on their sentence. The full press release and letter to Governor Pritzker areavailable here! The grievance alleges that he languished without meaningful medical intervention and that, after he died, his body was left in the cell for hours. Jeffreys said the outbreak mitigation program is in place at nine prisons, with several more planned. This report has been corrected to indicate that the state Senate had already passed the amendment. stream The Illinois Department of Corrections will identify medically vulnerable and elderly prisoners eligible for early release or electronic home monitoring. "What we've accomplished is really working with the state to make sure that they're doing everything they can to utilize the avenues available to them, where it's safe and appropriate to do so, to be releasing folks or to transferring them over to home detention, particularly those who are getting out soon anyway," Antholt, who works for Equip for Equality, said in a phone interview Tuesday. As a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic spread rapidly through Illinois prisons this fall, 73-year-old Watson Gray made another plea to be released from Dixon Correctional Center, where new infections were rising. Stateville Correctional Center personnel pull carts of hand sanitizer and bars of soap on April 24, 2020. Dr. John Raba, the court-appointed monitor in a federal consent decree case regarding inmate health care, began pushing in August for the testing of all staff. One staff member a 64-year-old nurse near retirement also died. Matthew Echevarria's photos are displayed at his mother's home in East Dundee on Dec. 4, 2020. J.B. Pritzker is deploying medics from the Illinois National Guard to the Illinois Department of Corrections facility, where advocates have declared a disaster.. If you are a member of the press, please contact our Director of Communications, Megan Groves, at megan@uplcchicago.org. This commitment is at the forefront of our Chicago Tribunes Annie Sweeney contributed. Mason was freed from Pontiac Correctional Center on Nov. 25 by Gov. Members of End Illinois Prison Lockdown Coalition rally as they call out Gov. "I am proud that Illinois is leading with compassion and bringing a restorative justice lens to criminal justice policy making. The Illinois Department of Corrections will identify medically vulnerable and elderly prisoners eligible for early release or electronic home monitoring. A day later, Gray died of complications related to COVID-19. J.B. Pritzker could help the effort with the stroke of a pen. Theyll all be given access to vaccines during the next phase, know as Phase 1B. (April 17) In Illinois, the governor signed an executive order that eases the He said, Ill be with you. . In addition, the state agreed that IDOC will continue to identify and evaluate medically vulnerable prisoners for release through legally available mechanisms, according to the terms of the settlement. COVID-19 cases are ticking back upward across Chicago and the rest of Illinois even as vaccine supply improves, the top doctors from the city and state warned Tuesday. A broken ankle. State Sen. Robert Martwick, D-Chicago, urged his colleagues on the Senate Executive Committee Wednesday to pass the bill so legislators have vehicles for that potential compromise, but warned that he wouldnt let those negotiations stand in the way of the city getting an elected school board. 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Her husband, Terry, said she said was a gifted nurse with a tender heart. She loved camping, travel, flea markets and yard sales. Legislators designed the Governor Juliana Stratton. Linda Savage, 64, a nurse at Vienna Correctional Center in downstate Vienna, died Nov. 6, 2020, of complications related to COVID-19. THE MICROFILM UNIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING MICROFILM RECORDS OF ALL MASTER FILES AND PRISONER REVIEW BOARD DECISIONS. Recently, Governor Pritzker announced that all staff working in Illinois prisons will have to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by mid-October. As a result of this settlement, prison officials will finally begin to address this issue.. ), Gov. J.B. Pritker for failure to protect the health and safety of those in prison from COVID-19, outside the Thompson Center in Chicago on Dec. 15, 2020. Vaccinating prisoners is good public policy. The proposed constitutional amendment passed 80 to 30. Speaking to the Senate panel on Friday, Jeffreys said strategies developed for the Stateville outbreak, such as deep cleaning, temperature checks, contact tracing and masking staff and inmates, have been duplicated systemwide. The couple, who had not seen each other since being imprisoned, were allowed a final phone call before he died. So far, three incarcerated men in Illinois two who had been housed at Stateville prison in Crest Hill and a detainee at the Cook County Jail have died from complications related to the coronavirus. About 400 staff and 1,700 inmates are considered current cases. Also, some prison staff will also undergo training on the Americans with Disabilities Act to help implement COVID-19 protections. Currently, the Prisoner Review Board (PRB) determines conditions of parole and notifies victims and families when an inmate will be released from custody. J.B. Pritzker in late June after serving 31 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, is an artist whose work focuses on his experience as an African American. In cases of medical Every day I thought my son was going to die, said Bronis, of East Dundee. But the administration hasnt provided a timeline, said Alyana Alfaro, a spokeswoman for the governor. % The screening process for staff includes temperature checks and, as of October, systemwide contact tracing. His cellmate filed a written grievance seeking an investigation into the staffs handling of the matter. 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At about 100 pounds and in poor health, 78-year-old Susan Hertzberg hardly poses a threat to public safety, her lawyer said. Thousands of prison workers have been sickened, including a correctional officer who spent a month on a ventilator fighting COVID-19 in March. More than 1,000 prisoners in Illinois are set to be released after a lawsuit settlement aimed at protecting medically vulnerable prisoners from COVID-19. Under the settlement, the Department of Corrections agreed to "identify and evaluate medically vulnerable prisoners for release through legally available mechanisms." (Family photo). People in Prison in Winter 2021-22 Vera Institute of Justice, February, 2022 All states and the federal prison system reduced their prison populations in 2020, but 19 states and the federal government increased the number of people incarcerated in prisons in 2021. COVID looks like it may stay. Illinois will soon begin vaccinating prisoners against COVID-19. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois officials on Monday reported the death of a state prison inmate from COVID-19 and acknowledged the difficulty they face in stopping the spread of the virus in a crowded correctional system. Federal sentencing and prison experts Maureen Baird, Mark H. Allenbaugh, and Alan Ellis evaluate the effectiveness of the First Step Act, a bipartisan bill passed in 2018. Groups that track national virus data for state and federal prisons, such as the COVID Prison Project and The Marshall Project, place Illinois about average on lists comparing infections based on inmate populations, but Illinois has one of the higher death tolls. As a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic spread rapidly through Illinois prisons this fall, 73-year-old Watson Gray made another plea to be released from Dixon Correctional Center, where new infections were rising. He was scared to death. The surge has continued, leading to sickness and death that advocates say was avoidable. HB 3665 not only provides better, more compassionate care to Illinois' seriously ill population, but helps improve the overall prison healthcare system. Since March, the governor has pardoned or commuted the sentences of about 100 men and women convicted of crimes, the oldest dating back to 1978, that range from murder to cannabis possession. Op-ed: The vaccine showdown no one is talking about: An Illinois mandate vs. the state's prison staffs. I could hear it in his voice, that he was close, said Susan Hertzberg, as quoted in a petition her lawyer filed with the state seeking early release. UPLC is tracking COVID-19 cases in IDOC. Pritzker could slow the spread of COVID-19 at Cook County Jail, Prisons worldwide risk becoming incubators of covid-19, Pritzker criticized over quiet commutations, not releasing medically vulnerable, Request for broad prisoner release untenable on class-wide basis, Ill. 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