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A Macon County judge was sympathetic to a Decatur veteran's traumatic wartime experiences but said he must be punished after violating probation terms in his aggravated domestic battery conviction.
Dozens of Central Illinois inmates have been declared unfit to stand trial but are stuck in county jails for months as they await critical, court-ordered psychiatric care from the state.
Police had accused him of using a portable wall to keep a woman prisoner; his home was also scene of a bomb scare.