Posted on 09/09/2009 6:45:15 AM PDT by Jabrown
Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Fitzgerald blasted lawmakers in a letter to Governor Quinn this week, calling state funding for probation services "dangerously inadequate".
In a letter written to the Illinois Governor on September 1st, Fitzgerald wrote, "“The practical effect of diminishing appropriations is that probation officers must be laid off, criminal offenders sentenced to probation receive inadequate or no supervision, and the public safety is thereby severely compromised."
As part of Governor Quinn's approved budget signed into law in July, appropriations to the Supreme Court for probation services were slashed by...
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