I have filed a Mandamus Petition in the Vienna, Illinois Circuit Court, THE First Judicial Circuit for Johnson County, Illinois. The case is Harris-vs-Warden Dennison, et. al., 2018-MR-97 and involves a Petition I filed to get a Mandamus Order by the Court forcing the Shawnee Administrators, the Wardens and Majors, to correct the dangerous conditions of confinement in place at the Shawnee Correctional Center
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Something Wrong Here?
In Illinois the Public Safety Act guarantees that the Department of Corrections and the Illinois State Police get their budgets, no matter what, in order to protect the public. For we cannot have our prisoners escaping out into the public. So the excuse that “the state Is broke” does not float here. It simply will not hold water.
But the Shawnee Prison is in serious disrepair. Money was appropriated to replace the windows for the cellhouses here. But only the windows in Three and Four House was replaced—the rest of the money disappeared, with no investigation into the millions missing. Continue reading “Something Wrong Here?”