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Posts tagged "criminal justice"

The Chicago Reporter up for several top honors at Friday's Lisagor Awards

The Chicago Reporter, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2012, has been nominated for a number of top honors in the 35th annual Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism. Founded by the Chicago Headline Club in 1977, these awards recognize the best of the city’s journalism and also serve to inspire journalists to follow Lisagor’s contribution... Read more »
By Michael McHugh,
May 4, 2012 at 11:21 am
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How one family drew a one-strike investigation

Around this time last year, Patricia Reed, her husband Albert Sims and I were catching up on the third floor of Cook County’s criminal courthouse when she filled me in on her moving plans. I was working on a piece about 17-year-olds in the adult felony system at the time and was lucky enough to... Read more »
By AngelaCaputo,
September 13, 2011 at 11:43 am
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A look back at recent stories in The Chicago Reporter--and elsewhere

We’re ending the week at the Muckrakers blog by trying something a bit new. Click through for a round-up and run-down of some of the journalism related to race and poverty issues in Chicago published in recent days. Let’s start with a review of what we’ve been up to at The Chicago Reporter this week... Read more »
By Micah Maidenberg,
July 8, 2011 at 5:37 pm
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Jails are the new asylums for women

If there’s one thing that Rosemary Gido wants her students to know, it’s this: “It’s not rocket science. Jails and prisons are the new asylums,” she says. As a professor of criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Gido has been studying how the criminal justice system treats two populations–women and the mentally ill–and how those... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
February 14, 2011 at 1:34 pm
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Why you should care about the Illinois judicial election

If you’re like most voters, when it comes to the enormous list of judges on this year’s ballot, you might feel a little overwhelmed. A lot of people just skip it, or vote yes or no for the entire slate. With almost 70 people on the ballot, who can blame them? Except that that long... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
October 28, 2010 at 3:48 pm
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Illinois refutes claims about lack of prenatal care for inmates

After our story yesterday about Illinois getting a “D” grade for prenatal care for female inmates from the Rebecca Project, we got a call from the Illinois Department of Corrections wanting to correct some information talked about in the Rebecca Project’s report. The report, they say, which said there was no evidence that our state... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
October 28, 2010 at 10:45 am
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Illinois gets a 'D' for prison prenatal care

When you think of women in prison, here’s a word that probably doesn’t come to your mind: mom. But it should. About two-thirds of the 115,000 women in prison in the U.S. are mothers. That’s a lot of missed good-night kisses and first days of school. And a new report shows that many states, including... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
October 25, 2010 at 8:14 pm
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Why felons should (or shouldn't) vote in the coming election

In Illinois, 45,545 people won’t vote this year. It isn’t that they won’t have the time. It’s not that they lack motivation. It’s not that the lines are too long, or they can’t get to the polls. It’s where they live – in prison. Although Illinois is one of the few states that allows ex-offenders... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
October 11, 2010 at 10:36 am
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Need a public defender? Better be prepared to pay up

Remember that part in the Miranda rights that says, “You have a right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you…”? If you’ve watched enough cop shows, it’s pretty standard. More at chicagoreporter.com What you may not realize is that in Illinois, as well as 12 other states... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
October 5, 2010 at 10:28 pm
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News Roundup: Foreclosures spiked in Cook County in August, some blame law

An April 2009 law intended to better manage foreclosures caused foreclosure filings to spike 66.4 percent in August, compared to a year earlier. Overall, foreclosures fell 5.5 percent over the year nationally and dropped 16.9 percent in Cook County since July.   Also in the news… The Elgin Police Department is making creative use of... Read more »
By CRIntern,
September 16, 2010 at 2:30 pm
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