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Five inmates sentenced in Champaign County to be released from Illinois Department of Corrections during week ending May 20

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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 May 20.

The inmate being released who served the longest time was Lamar Phillips for domestic battery. Lamar Phillips spent more than one years incarcerated.

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
Cornelius C. PearsonAGG BATTERY/PUBLIC PLACE2023-05-19Danville Correctional Center
Lamar PhillipsDOMESTIC BATTERY/PHY CONTACT/2ND+2023-05-19Graham Correctional Center
Martell Harris Jr.ESCAPE/VIOLATE ELEC MONITORING2023-05-19Lincoln Correctional Center
Trayshaun D. WilliamsFAIL REPORT ACCIDENT/DEATH/INJURY2023-05-19Western Illinois Correctional Center
Danny SteeleAGG UNLAWFUL USE OF WEAPON/VEH2023-05-20Lincoln Correctional Center

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