Posted on 04/02/2024 4:52:59 PM PDT by grundle
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate's minority leader proposed legislation Tuesday to overhaul Gov. J.B. Pritzker's Prisoner Review Board after it released a convicted domestic abuser who then attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son.
Republican Leader John Curran criticized Pritzker and said he plans legislation to require that board appointees have 20 years of criminal justice experience as a prosecutor, defense attorney, probation officer or judge, and that each member undergo annual training on domestic violence and sexual assault and the warning signs that precede repeat attacks.
Other proposed measures would require advance notice to victims of board decisions to release perpetrators and more transparency on the members' deliberations in each case, including how they voted.
Pritzker has acknowledged the parole board didn’t sufficiently consider evidence in releasing 37-year-old Crosetti Brand on March 12. The next day, Brand allegedly broke into the apartment of Laterria Smith, 33, who had an order of protection against him, attacked her with a knife and killed her son Jayden Perkins when he intervened to protect his mother.
The attack prompted the resignation on March 25 of board member LeAnn Miller, who conducted Brand's release hearing and wrote the report recommending he be freed. Later that day, board chairperson Donald Shelton also quit.
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How about inmates do the court-ordered sentence they are given. No criminal who has proven on multiple times in the past, that they will not abide by the conditions of their release, and is thrown back in prison because of it, should ever be considered for early release again. The 16 years this animal was supposed to be serving included the additional years he’d been given for previous crimes, but repeatedly violated the conditions of those releases.
Sternly worded letters! Harumphs all around. That’ll show ‘em.
The voters deserve chaos.
Keep those votes coming in folks more kaos to come enjoy
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