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Week ending April 6: five inmates sentenced in Champaign County to be released from Illinois Department of Corrections

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There are five inmates sentenced to jail in Champaign County set to be released from the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections during the week ending April 6.

According to The Institute for Illinois’ Fiscal Sustainability, Illinois spends about $37,000 a year per incarcerated person. In a study by Prison Policy Initiative, Illinois’ incarceration rate was at 564 per 100,000, higher than every industrialized country, except the United States. When compared with its surrounding states, Illinois was the lowest. Kentucky and Missouri have rates over 850 per 100,000.

One of the issues is how pretrial detainees are now handled. The Vera Institute of Justice noted that pretrial detainees made up 71% of the total jail population.

Most prison inmates are released on some condition of supervised monitoring upon reentering civilian life. This monitoring can last from one year to the rest of someone’s life.

Inmates being released who were sentenced in Champaign County
NameOffenseSupervised Release DateHolding Facility
Steven A. CaldwellPUBLIC INDECENCY/EXPOSURE/3+2023-04-30Taylorville Correctional Center
Eric KnightUUW-FELON POSS/USE WEAPON/FIREARM2023-05-01Danville Correctional Center
Jovanda L. WhiteAGG VEHICULAR HIJACKING/HANDICAPPED2023-05-02Menard Correctional Center
Julius KingVIOLATE ORDER/PRIOR DOM BATTERY2023-05-02Stateville Correctional Center
Devin StarkeyRESIDENTIAL BURGLARY2023-05-04Western Illinois Correctional Center

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