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2 articles on closoing Pontiac IL prison-- Mistakes of black youth keep Pontiac prison in business Union fights closing, wants more paroles revoked

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Mistakes of black youth keep Pontiac prison in business Union fights closing, wants more paroles revoked November 20, 2008 Chicago Sun Times BY MARY MITCHELL marym@suntimes.com Pardon me while I make this real plain. If you have worn your knees out trying to pray a hard-head off the corner, or if you suspect that the baggy pants and puffy jacket he is wearing are hiding a gun, maybe what I'm about to say will get through to him. Pontiac prison in Downstate Illinois is eager to welcome him. So much so, the union representing prison employees has been fighting every step of the way the state's plan to close the facility. On Monday, Scott McCoy, Pontiac's mayor, went on record with a local reporter, blasting Gov. Blagojevich and Roger Walker, director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, for Chicago's alarming murder rates...continue to full post

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