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by Adam Doster
1:34pm
Fri Jan 15, 2010

IL-GOV: Ad Wars Continue, Daily Herald Endorses Hynes

Election 2010

Earlier this week, both Democratic gubernatorial candidates released new attack ads. First, Comptroller Dan Hynes jumped on Gov. Pat Quinn for the way he handled the unpublicized "MGT Push" prisoner release program. Then Quinn knocked Hynes for "grossly distorting" his ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
1:01pm
Wed Jan 13, 2010
1 comment

Hynes, Quinn Release Dueling Early Release Ads

IL-Governor

On the eve of the State of the State address, Comptroller Dan Hynes
doubled down on his attack of Gov. Pat Quinn for the Department of
Corrections' unpublicized early prison release program, unveiling a new
television ad that urges voters to "release Pat Quinn from his job...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
11:11am
Fri Jan 8, 2010
1 comment

Kirk Revives "61-Detainee" Falsehood

Mark Kirk

Fresh off a tour in Afghanistan, U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk wasted no time yesterday warning about the dangers of releasing suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay.

PI Original
by Adam Doster
6:17pm
Thu Jan 7, 2010
3 comments

Prison Reformers Sound Off On Early Release Rhetoric

IL-Governor

Gov. Pat Quinn is in damage-control mode following allegations that, under an unpublicized and discretionary
meritorious early prison release program, Department of Corrections
(DOC) officials shortened sentences for about 1,700 inmates some of
whom had killings or ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
2:31pm
Tue Jan 5, 2010

IL-GOV: New Ads From Hynes And Quinn

State budget

The race between Gov. Pat Quinn and Democratic challenger Dan Hynes continues to heat up and the early release controversy is serving as the spark.

After blasting Quinn in a weeks-worth of interviews and filing
a second Freedom of Information Act request to obtain a ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
3:26pm
Mon Jan 4, 2010
3 comments

An Opportunity For Broader Prison Reform

IL-Governor

Late last week, in the lull between Christmas and New Years, Gov.
Pat Quinn announced a complete overhaul of the state's unpublicized
"meritorious good time" early release program, known in the Corrections
Department as MGT Push. The program -- and the administrators in ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
10:37am
Wed Dec 23, 2009

Another Early Release Program Under Fire

Prisons

For over a week now, editorial boards and elected officials from across the state have openly criticized
the Quinn administration for the way its managed the unpublicized
"meritorious good time" early release program, known in the Corrections
Department as MGT Push. ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
1:05pm
Wed Dec 16, 2009
2 comments

The Gitmo-Thomson Debate Expands

Aaron Schock

With every passing day, it's looking more and more like Guantanamo detainees will be relocated to Northwest Illinois. Yesterday, senior White House officials provided some concrete details about their plan for moving a limited number of terror suspects to Thomson ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
6:47pm
Mon Nov 30, 2009

Veteran Illinois Lawyers Deride "Fearmongering" Over Thomson/Gitmo Plan

Prisons

Today, three high-profile Illinois lawyers -- former federal judge Abner Mikva and former U.S. Attorneys Thomas Sullivan and Dan Webb -- sent a letter to the state's congressional delegation supporting "the use of federal and state prisons, including the one at Thomson, IL, ...