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WBGZ Radio 5/25/2021 | By Greg Bishop - Illinois Radio Network Illinois law enforcement associations continue to wait for follow-up legislation to address issues in a sweeping criminal justice and police regulation law enacted earlier this year. The controversial measure impacting the criminal justice system and police regulations passed in the final hours of the previous General Assembly. Even after signing the bill, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said in February there would need to be some cleanup. “Whenever you do anything big like this, and you’ve seen this before too, there’s always a fix he...

Visits to Illinois’ prisons are being phased in as staff and inmates get vaccinated. But, there are concerns being raised about how much uptake there is for the COVID-19

Visits to Illinois' prisons are being phased in as staff and inmates get vaccinated. But, there are concerns being raised about how much uptake there is for the COVID-19 vaccine among staff. There's also a push from county sheriffs to have the state transfer convicted inmates to state prisons, instead of being housed at county jails. Subscribe Prisons went on lockdown for most of COVID-19. But, with vaccines now available, Illinois Department of Corrections Director Rob Jefferys told lawmakers last week, there is uptake. "And so far 69% of our incarcerated population and 36% of our staff have...