(The Center Square) – A shakeup at the Illinois Prisoner Review Board has Republicans calling for reforms. Illinois Senate Minority Leader John Curran, R-Downers Grove, said the resignation of two people from the PRB Mo.
SPRINGFIELD — The longtime chair and a relatively new member of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board have resigned, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office announced Monday.
A member of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board resigned on Monday. This resignation came in the aftermath of the board's decision to release a man who, merely a day after his release, brutally attacked a pregnant woman in Chicago with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son as he heroically attempted to protect his mother.
Board chair Donald Shelter and board member LeAnn Miller stepped down on Monday following backlash over the murder of Jayden Perkins, 11 by recently released parolee Crosetti Brand.