Illinois govenor GovernorJ .B.Pritzker says he’s in favor of criminal justice reform, so why isn't he using his clemency powers more effectively and expansively? | ✍️Anthony Ehlers👇
than all of that state’s governors in the last 50 years combined.
There are many reasons Pritzker should be granting clemency. The injustices of mass incarceration, the tough-on-crime deterrence myth, racism, laws like Truth in Sentencing, and life without the possibility of parole , are inextricably intertwined. The victims of mass incarceration are suffering from overly punitive laws and dying in prison despite yearslong self-rehabilitation.
Today, Illinois sentences hundreds of people to death by incarceration every year! This transition from viewing a dozen people per year as irredeemable to hundreds was not only unjustified, but has resulted in the steady growth of Illinois’s “slow Death Row.” I’ve often described the Illinois Department of Corrections as a waste-management system. Society views us as garbage, and so opportunities for rehabilitation are nonexistent. In 1994,amid a change in the social milieu from favoring rehabilitation to demanding punitiveness. IDOC largely abandoned college and vocational programs in the 1990s, and turned to warehousing people in increasingly inhumane conditions.
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