{"id":212,"date":"2020-05-01T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.restorejustice.org\/2020\/05\/01\/the-facts-about-illinoiss-848-not-4000-covid-19-related-early-prison-releases\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T00:33:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T00:33:41","slug":"the-facts-about-illinoiss-848-not-4000-covid-19-related-early-prison-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.restorejustice.org\/the-facts-about-illinoiss-848-not-4000-covid-19-related-early-prison-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Facts About Illinois\u2019s 848 (not 4,000) COVID-19 Related Early Prison Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-image my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.restorejustice.org\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Menard-double-1-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19427\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This photo was shared with Restore Justice by our partners at the Uptown People&#8217;s Law Center. This is a cell shared by two people at Menard Correctional Center. Illinois&#8217;s prisons are overcrowded, which makes them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p><em>Update 5\/28\/20: IDOC has continued small numbers of early releases. We are providing updated early and total release information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.restorejustice.org\/idoc-release-information\/\">here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>4\/30\/20:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>Thank you, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), for <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.illinois.gov\/idoc\/Offender\/Pages\/CommunityNotificationofInmateEarlyRelease.aspx\">releasing as many as 848 people early<\/a> during the first eight weeks of this COVID-19 pandemic. (It&#8217;s possible some of the people included in that figure served their entire sentences.) We analyzed data provided to the public by IDOC, nearly 44 percent of those released were within weeks of their out dates, and another 20 percent were within one or two months of their out dates. Thirty percent were serving time for the lowest level of felonies, Class 4, and an additional 30 percent were serving time for Class 3 felonies, the second lowest level in Illinois\u2019s criminal code. (Again, some of these people may have served their full sentences.)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>In addition to early releases for low-level felonies, Governor Pritzker commuted the sentences of approximately 20 individuals after recommendations from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.illinois.gov\/sites\/prb\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Illinois Prisoner Review Board<\/a> (PRB). Clemency is a rigorous process, and prosecutors and victims\u2019 families are given the opportunity to challenge each clemency request. Clemency and other early release mechanisms became confused in public discourse this week due to the release of a series of inaccurate stories in local media outlets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>Early releases during this pandemic are critical because of the contagious and widespread nature of the virus. As Governor Pritzker and Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike have both noted at their daily press conferences, congregate settings, including correctional facilities, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/04\/28\/846678912\/a-ticking-time-bomb-advocates-warn-covid-19-is-spreading-rapidly-behind-bars\">uniquely vulnerable to the virus<\/a>. Before COVID-19 struck, Illinois\u2019s prisons were operating under a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/90000a2d4b2149778e823084319f33c9\">consent decree for providing inadequate healthcare<\/a>, which gives the state even more motivation to reduce facility populations and relieve stress on medical resources.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>Recent reports in multiple media outlets across Illinois have erroneously attributed 4,000 IDOC releases to COVID-19. The number seems to be derived from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.illinois.gov\/idoc\/Offender\/Pages\/CommunityNotificationofInmateEarlyRelease.aspx\">list posted on the IDOC website<\/a> of all releases from March 1 to April 30. Our analysis, along with consistent public statements from IDOC, shows clearly that more than 3,100 of those individuals were released on their anticipated exit date after <strong>serving their entire sentences<\/strong>. The remaining 848 individuals were released early. Sixty-five percent of these people had fewer than 2 months remaining on their sentences, and many had just weeks remaining. These people were released early through one of the mechanisms that have long been available to IDOC officials who would like to reduce sentences based on behavior or merit. The mechanisms are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idoc.state.il.us\/subsections\/search\/EarlyCNERSentenceInfoNEW.asp\">Earned Sentence Credit<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idoc.state.il.us\/subsections\/search\/EarlyCNERSentenceInfo.asp\">Supplemental Sentence Credit<\/a>, both of which allow IDOC to award up to 180 days of credit toward early release; and Meritorious Good Time, a program which was suspended in 2009 but through which people sentenced before its cancellation still receive their previously awarded sentence credits. Some of those released will continue to be supervised by IDOC via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/fulltext.asp?DocName=073000050K5-8A-1\">electronic monitoring<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>Restore Justice analyzed the data made available to the public by IDOC. While we\u2019ll continue to review the information, here\u2019s what we have found thus far about those released through the Earned Sentence Credit, Supplemental Sentence Credit, and Meritorious Good Time programs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-list my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><p>60% of the 848 people released early were serving time for Class 4 or Class 3 Felonies. <strong>Class 4 is the least serious of felonies in the State of Illinois<\/strong> and includes theft and drug possession. Class 3 is the second least serious of Illinois\u2019s felonies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n<li><p>65% of 848 people released early had <strong>less than two months left on their sentences<\/strong>. Of those people, more than 44 percent had less than one month left on their sentences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n<li><p>Of the 848 early releases, 173 are from Stateville Correctional Center. Stateville has had a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/coronavirus-deaths-stateville-prison-update\/6101206\/\">deadly COVID-19 outbreak<\/a>, killing incarcerated people and sickening prison staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n<li><p>The second largest number of releases came from Decatur Correctional Center, a women\u2019s facility. This follows Governor Pritzker\u2019s pledge to release pregnant women and mothers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>A small number of State\u2019s Attorneys, state representatives, and news outlets have also made a significant and misleading mistake by conflating clemency, a process in which the governor can commute a person\u2019s sentence or issue a pardon, with other forms of early release. To the best of our knowledge, only 20 people have received clemency from Governor Pritzker, and all of those had their sentences commuted (meaning the Governor did not issue a pardon, but rather amended their sentence to match the time they have already served). The PRB manages the clemency process. An incarcerated person submits an extensive written application, and the PRB then reviews those files, letters, and other documentation. There are always public hearings as part of this process, and victims are notified. Victims and the local prosecutor have the opportunity to challenge a clemency at the hearing or in writing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>This minority of lawmakers and news outlets represent an outsized share of critique of prison releases in both Illinois and the United States. Recall that the <strong>United States incarcerates more citizens per capita than any other nation in the world at any time in history<\/strong>. In Illinois, more than 36,000 people are confined in our prisons, not including jails, in large part because of ineffective \u201ctough on crime\u201d legislation dating back to the 1970s and 1990s. Nearly 20 percent of the people currently incarcerated are elderly, and many others are sick and disabled. Outside of clemency, these individuals get little to no opportunity for early release since our state eliminated parole opportunities in 1978 and added sentencing enhancements over decades. While the legislature and recent governors have started to roll back these inhumane, failed policies, the solutions are not applied retroactively, leaving a segment of the prison population to serve a disproportionate number of years behind bars because their offense deems them as violent, their sentences are extreme, and there is no consistent mechanism for release..&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>While it may seem logical to label people as violent based on the crimes for which they were convicted, our state\u2019s overly broad accountability and felony-murder laws have placed swathes of \u201cviolent offender\u201d labels on people who didn\u2019t commit, didn\u2019t plan to commit, and\/or weren\u2019t present for the actual violent offenses. We know these laws are often used to hold women responsible for their partner\u2019s crimes, just as we know many of the women who\u2019ve been convicted of murder killed an abusive partner. Furthermore, we sit in the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chicago-the-false-confession-capital\/\">False Confession Capital<\/a>\u201dof the nation in Cook County. Courts have spent the past decade working in earnest to undo previous decades of wrongful convictions. And, we also know that many of them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/public_interest\/child_law\/resources\/child_law_practiceonline\/child_law_practice\/vol-34\/august-2015\/understanding-the-adolescent-brain-and-legal-culpability\/\">were children or young adults<\/a> when convicted. They\u2019ve since matured, grown, and changed. Who among us wants to be remembered solely for the worst thing we\u2019ve ever done? <strong>People who serve extreme sentences beginning in their youth or teen years have <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentencingproject.org\/publications\/long-term-sentences-time-reconsider-scale-punishment\/\"><strong>virtually non-existent recidivism rates<\/strong><\/a><strong>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>Governor Pritzker has begun the important process of granting clemencies when appropriate, and more notably, has begun a careful process of early release for lower-level offenses using existing legal mechanisms. He should be applauded for reminding all stakeholders in the criminal legal system that those who are incarcerated must be treated with humanity and dignity. We ask him to stay the course; his administration must continue to release people safely, which in turn protects incarcerated people, prison staff, local medical workers, and the communities that house prisons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p>During times of uncertainty and fear, we should be able to rely on elected officials and local media outlets to do their best to report and analyze the facts. No one is perfect. But recent distortions and conflations have increased fear, exacerbated uncertainty, and created pressure to change course based on that fear. Governor Pritzker and IDOC did the right thing in sharing detailed information about the releases, including the 3,100 people who served their entire sentences. Members of the media and those with political agendas are reckless in using that transparency to mislead the public. We can and must do better.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><section class=\"px-mobile xl:px-desktop wp-core-paragraph my-6 first:mt-12 first:lg:mt-25 last:lg:mb-25\"><div class=\"mx-auto max-w-200 text-black-brand\/80\">\n<p><em>*The early release list provided by IDOC could include people who served their full sentences.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 5\/28\/20: IDOC has continued small numbers of early releases. We are providing updated early and total release information here. 4\/30\/20: Thank you, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), for releasing as many as 848 people early during the first eight weeks of this COVID-19 pandemic. 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