This is the least of it. Second City Cop is reporting that her office has not charged a single sex offender who has been arrested for failure to register.
This is one comment on his blog. It will make you think twice before applauding so-called prison sentencing reform.
“”Restorative justice” at work. Once again.
The parole laws, also referred to euphemistically in Illinois as “mandatory supervised release” for you civilians following at home, is a swindle on Illinois citizens devised by the politicians they keep electing to convince naive voters than criminals are actually behind bars while they are serving prison sentences. Spoiler alert: many criminals serving prison terms for very serious offenses aren’t in prison at all. That’s right, although the Illinois Department of Corrections lists them on their website as prisoners, many criminals are released way before the end of their sentences.
For example. Mookie is charged with carjacking, kidnapping and attempt murder in Cook Co. Because Kim Foxxx is state’s attorney, charges are reduced to a Class 2 possession of controlled substance, because Mookie also had cocaine on him and the drug charge is the only way to make the reduced sentence work under the sentencing code. All other charges are dismissed. Mookie is sentence to 5 years DOC.
DOC puts Mookie in a minimum security prison because he’s only bee convicted of a drug charge. Mookie wants to get back on the street, so he takes classes and gets drug treatment in prison. After 9 months, DOC figures they can put him on work release, so they let him out. A few months later, Mookie gets put on MSR. 14 months into his 5 year sentence, Mookie’s back in the hood, working his day job again.
Clever readers will also understand that the 5 year drug sentence works to the advantage of the doper lobby who can use Mookie as a poster boy for “mass incarceration of non-violent drug offenders.”