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- Columns & Opinion, Opinion Apr 7, 2020
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‘I wasn’t sentenced to die’
As COVID-19 spreads through Illinois prisons, inmates and advocates seek clemencies and medical furloughs to save lives.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2018
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Why the nationwide strike against ‘modern-day slavery’ may not reach Illinois. And why it's already here.
IDOC's job opportunities are so few and repression of organizing so intense that few inmates may be joining the nationwide labor strike. That doesn't mean they're not resisting.
- News & Politics, Feature May 16, 2018
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Officials hope much-hyped drug can slow state's opioid crisis, but is it worth the costs?
Vivitrol, which costs $1,000 an injection, shows some hope in treating addicts but its aggressive marketing has come under fire, and the drug is not without risks.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 25, 2018
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Life inside a supermax prison
Tamms Correctional Center was Illinois's only supermax prison. The Reader may have played a part in shutting it down.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2017
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AG Sessions won't commit to a consent decree to enforce CPD reforms, hasn't read DOJ report, and other Chicago news
Also, attending an upcoming Paul Ryan fund-raiser in Chicago could cost you up to $50,000.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 19, 2016
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Illinois's prison population dropped 9.1 percent under Rauner, and other Chicago news
Also, it was so cold Sunday that Chicago Bears QB Matt Barkley was wearing a wet suit under his uniform.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 26, 2012
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Prisoner roundup
A few new articles and reports about the U.S. prison system
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 8, 2011
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The misunderstood sex offender
William's crime isn’t sympathetic, but among sex offenses it isn’t an anomaly. Why aren't the laws tailored to him?
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 16, 2011
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The misfire
Chicago's tough gun law was supposed to help officials track who's acquiring guns and who's misusing them. So far it's doing neither.
- Blogs, Bleader May 22, 2009
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Opposing the opposition to reform
State rep Julie Hamos was among the first to raise concerns about Tamms supermax prison; now she's pushing for campaign finance reform. Sounds like she's running for higher office.
- Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2008
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Tamms reforms on the way?
State representative Julie Hamos is pushing for reforms at the Tamms supermax prison.
