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By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – Some jail inmates will get the vote as part of a criminal justice package signed by Gov. JB Pritzker.
“We’re making sure that 20,000 people detained pre-trial each year don’t miss out on the opportunity to have their voices heard,” said the governor. “That means we are going to put a polling place in the Cook County Jail for detainees who are eligible to vote and a vote-my-mail program in every other county all across the state of Illinois. That’s 102 counties.”
Other new laws have discharged prisoners go through a peer-education civics program as they re-adjust to society; and, for long-serving inmates, get sentencing credit for advancing their education and / or rehabilitation.
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