the safety and security of the people who are working in our prisons is the highest priority
the internal mechanism is through the Inspector General's office?
I would just like to say that we really need to focus on alternative to incarceration programs.
the obvious question is what skills do they have to recognize mental illness and its manifestations in contrast to simpl...
Senator Webb's idea of a reform commission, which I have cosponsored, is a step in the right direction.
I think it is a human right to have your health care diagnosed when we are going to incarcerate you.
that situation is the wrong thing for everybody, and, frankly, it is dangerous.
I think it causes deterioration with mentally ill inmates.
I can recall, just as an aside, that in 1970, then-Lieutenant Governor Paul Simon took me, a young lawyer fresh out of l...
Do you feel that our system of justice is really equipped to deal with what we have decided as America will be our futur...
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals at the Federal level is not known as a liberal court of appeals.