{"id":3183,"date":"2019-04-30T20:50:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2019-04-30T20:50:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:50:52","slug":"sheriff-tom-dart-is-pushing-a-concerning-bill-through-the-illinois-legislature-that-would-give-unprecedented-power-to-jail-officials-to-lengthen-individuals-prison-sentences-due-to-discipline-violat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagocouncil.org\/staging\/1601\/sheriff-tom-dart-is-pushing-a-concerning-bill-through-the-illinois-legislature-that-would-give-unprecedented-power-to-jail-officials-to-lengthen-individuals-prison-sentences-due-to-discipline-violat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Tom Dart is pushing a concerning bill through the Illinois legislature that would give unprecedented power to jail officials to lengthen individuals&#8217; prison sentences due to discipline violations."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Sarah Staudt, Senior Policy Analyst and Staff Attorney<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SB\n416 allows jail officials to use their internal disciplinary boards to remove\nup to a year of pre-trial sentence credit for inmates who are found to have\nviolated jail rules by committing \u201cpublic indecency\u201d or \u201cassault or battery of\na corrections officer\u201d more than once. This bill would give correctional\nofficers in county jail unchecked, unreviewable authority to make people serve\nlonger prison sentences for violations of jail rules. I have three main\nconcerns about this bill:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The bill gives county\n     jail officials much more power than even state prison officials have to\n     severely punish disciplinary infractions by removing pretrial sentence\n     credit;<\/li><li>County Jail disciplinary\n     boards would not be subject to any review by any judge for the decisions they\n     made to remove sentence credit, and inmates would have no right to counsel\n     or appeal;<\/li><li>The infractions that\n     jails could remove sentence credit for are too broadly drawn.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This bill would give county\ncorrections officers a power that even IDOC officials do not have: the power to\nunilaterally remove a full <em>year<\/em> of sentence credit based on an internal\ndecision that an inmate has violated the rules of the jail. State prison\nofficials who want to remove sentence credit and increase the amount of time\nsomeone spends in prison due to their conduct while incarcerated have to make a\npetition to the independent Prison Review Board, who reviews the case and\ndecides whether sentence credit revocation is warranted. This provides a vital\ncheck on corrections officers\u2019 power to increase the amount of time people\nspend in prison based on disciplinary violations. SB 416 provides no such check\non county officials, giving them much more power than state officials have to\nremove sentence credit. Furthermore, county jails will never have to pay the\ncosts of the increased incarceration they are ordering. Instead, the state\nprison system would have to bear the brunt of the increased prison sentences\ncounty jails may order through this bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SB 416 is an unnecessary and\ntroubling increase of the power of jail disciplinary boards to impose severe\npenalties for behavior that happens inside the jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Staudt, Senior Policy Analyst and Staff Attorney SB  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,71,72,73],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy-statements","tag-criminal-justice","tag-jail","tag-prison","tag-sentencing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sheriff Tom Dart is pushing a concerning bill through the Illinois legislature that would give unprecedented power to jail officials to lengthen individuals&#039; 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