As a part of a look into the standards of Illinois' county jails, these documents were provided to CU-CitizenAccess.org through a request to the Illinois Department of Corrections using the...
By Amy Harwath/CU-CitizenAccess.org
Trash litters the floors of the Edgar County jail, unknown liquid leaks from the ceilings, and broken locks make it impossible to secure internal doors.
The...
By Amy Harwath/CU-CitizenAccess.org -- While the debate continues about whether to shutdown Champaign County’s downtown jail, a consultant hired by the county is pushing for a new system for...
By Amy Harwath/CU-CitizenAccess.org -- On Wednesday, April 17 the group Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice held a public hearing with jail consultant Alan Kalmanoff to air their concerns...
The United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week over the constitutionality of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act.
The Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, denies federal...
By Amy Harwath/CU-CitizenAccess.org
The transition for mentally ill inmates from the Champaign County jail to community services is seriously hampered by a lack of coordination and communication...
By Amy Harwath / For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Some people who are in a dire financial situation may feel that they have no choice but to deal drugs.
But Aaron Ammons was not in a dire situation. And...
Pam G. Dempsey / CU-CitizenAccess.org and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein / Hoy -- The barber shop in Pirtle’s Mini-Mall on Fourth Street is the kind of place a black youth can easily walk...
By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein/Hoy -- Enterprise Rent-A-Car must love Miguel Keberlein-Gutierrez.
That’s because the supervisory attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago...
By Dave Hinton/Rantoul Press/WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bernard Ramos is a free man again.
A legal mix-up has led to the release of the former caretaker at Cherry Orchard Village apartment complex....