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Illinois Prison Project And Jenner & Block Welcome Home Kensley Hawkins - Criminal Law


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Kensley Sonny Hawkins, who turned 70 years old this
year after spending over 39 years in prison, walked out of Shawnee
Correctional Center last week a free man. Mr. Hawkins suffered from
numerous serious medical issues that made him extremely vulnerable
to COVID-19, and we are overjoyed that he returned home to his
loving daughter and grandchildren.
Mr. Hawkins grew up in a single-parent household and was one of
10 children. To support his mother, he dropped out of high school
and enlisted in the United States Army, where he simultaneously ....

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Cook County Clerk Loses Bid to Be Freed From Oversight


Downtown Chicago. (Photo via Jürgen Polle/Pixabay)
CHICAGO (CN) A set of decades-old consent decrees aimed at ending patronage in Illinois government will stay in place for now, a federal appeals panel ruled Friday.
The so-called Shakman decrees from 1972 and 1991 are still needed to oversee hiring practices, at least when it comes to the Cook County Clerk’s Office, according to the Seventh Circuit. However, the panel warned that the decrees had been in place for far too long.
“Permitting a consent decree over an arm of state or local government (here, the Cook County Clerk) to anchor itself on a federal docket for decades is inconsistent with our federal structure,” U.S. Circuit Judge Michael Y. Scudder, a Donald Trump appointee, wrote in the panel’s opinion. ....

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