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Name: Darla LeCrone on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jacqueline Pena on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Reinstate GOOD time. Thank you.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Penni Higgins on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Matthew Keene on Mar 12, 2010Comments: I have seen and heard the pain and frustration expressed by the family/friends of those with a loved one in prison. They are being punished alongside the inmates. Also suffering are the taxpayers of Illinois. By suspending the awarding of MGT/SMGT, the cost of housing prisoners is elevated by each extra day being served. In these tough economic times, any cost saving program should be used to its fullest extent. A strong leader is one who faces the tough decisions and takes charge when the actions are unpopular but morally right. I urge you to be that leader, Governor Quinn.Flag
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Name: L Campuzano on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Dino on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Gayle Willard on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Governor Quinn should re-instate this additional good time award and oversee a program for early release. The state can no longer afford to house tens of thousands of non-violent, short-term offenders. Our tax dollars are being frivolously squandered by imprisoning offenders with minor offenses. Someone please get a backbone and make the necessary changes.Flag
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Name: Martha Pena on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Quinn, You have suspended the much deserved MGT/SMGT which by the way, would save us a whole lot of tax payed money, yet you are still requesting to BORROW $4BILLION?! That is absolutely obsurd! Word spreads like fire as well as the votes from the people that will NOT be voting for you come election time.Flag
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Name: GLoria Hernandez on Mar 12, 2010Comments: I think it was very irresponsible what Pat Quinn did and I do not think it is fair that other inmates for instance those who did not murder someone but is sentenced as if they did just because he messed up. My father who is a inmate in Vandalia IL can not receive good time because some idiot does not know what he is doing but is working for the state.!!!!!!Flag
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Name: Polly Galey on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Everyone deserves a bonus for a job well done.Flag
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Name: Tonia Maloney on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Irma Santiago on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: KELLY on Mar 12, 2010Comments: i JUST HAVE TO SAY THAT I AM AFFECTED BY YOUR DECISION! MY HUSBAND WAS IN PRISION BECASUE HE GOT CAUGHT DRIVING ON A REVOKED AND WAS SENTENCE 1 YR. HE WAS SUPPOSE TO DO 61 DAYS BUT WAS LET OUT EARLY! THEN 4 MONTHS LATER WAS PUT ON HOUSE AREST! YOU ASK HOW DOES THIS AFFECT YOU WELL BECASUE HE IS DETAINED TO OUR HOUSE I HAVE TO GO AND DO EVERYTHING! WE HAVE A 9 MO. OLD SON WHICH MAKES IT EVEN HARDER BECAUSE I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING! MY HUSBAND DOES EVERYTHING HE SUPPOSE TOO AND YET HE STILL HAS TO SERVE OUT THE WHOLE TIME ON HOUSE ARREST. I FELL IT IS UNFAIR AND OUTRAGOUS THAT BECAUSE OF YOUR MISTAKES THAT THE INMATES HAVE TO TAKE THE PUNISHMENT! BACK TO THE SAME OLD IL POLITICS TO ME HOW UNFAIR TO DO TO OUR STATE! YOUR ADMINISTRATION MAKES MISTAKES AND TAKE IT OUT ON US VOTERS! HOW DARE YOU!!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ted Pearson on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Taylor Drewes on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Please re review your decision. My husband is in prison for driving on a revoked license and we have children and a home, i need him to help me and work.Flag
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Name: David B Johnson on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Be a man for the people Mr. GovernorFlag
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Name: Megan Stoyanoff on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Do not punish others with the mistakes you have made, instead fix them.Flag
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Name: Selena Jones on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Lori Weakley on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Govenor---I am a voter, AND an irate family member who WAS expecting my loved one home soon, NOW we have no clue when he will get released. It's already a tough situation to be in, now the inmates are on pins and needles with UNKNOWN RELEASE dates. Early Release for overcrowding and NOT ENOUGH MONEY to handle DOC, and NOW you WANT to KEEP them in LONGER...which is it governor??? DOES IL HAVE THE MONEY TO KEEP INMATES IN LONGER??? LAST fall you were going to let them out due to the BUDGET-IT can't be BOTH WAYS!! TELL US THE TRUTH!! Make up your mind, STOP WAFFLING because of the PRESS-Do the right thing!!!!! I need my loved one HOME!!!!Flag
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Name: Kimberly K. Lathrom on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Michelle M Mierzwa on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Geraldine Vandenbrink on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Judy Mleczko on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Lilia Ocon on Mar 12, 2010Comments: This is something that is necessry to get passed.. these politicians keep running throught our tax $ and these people have already done there time so release them theat way they can return to society and get back on track.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2010Comments: The prisons are filling up FAST right now-ALL beds are about to be full...THEN WHAT? Corrections is already failing society and NOT rehabilitating inmates. Use ED, let my brother come home on ED---then you do not have to pay to house him. SAVE the state 20 K send him HOME. He can work and be home were he belongs and serve his sentence with people that care and love him!!!! I NEED MY BROTHER HOME....Give him his 6 mo good time, we are READY!!!!!!!Flag
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Name: Sylvia Martinez on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jack Frost on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Patrick Murphy on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Please don't issue blanket responses to an issue that requires a more nuanced response. Let those who genuinely deserve good time receive their due.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Donald Peach Sr on Mar 12, 2010Comments: please restore mgt/smgt you are affecting many people livesFlag
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Name: PATRICIA PENA on Mar 12, 2010Comments: give the good time back please!Flag
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Name: Becky Carter on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Verna Bronersky on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Please reconsider your decision.Flag
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Name: Danica Collum on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Perla BV on Mar 12, 2010Comments: This is incredibly unfair to those inmates who have repented truly of their mistakes, and have been doing good in prison. They behave well, and have plans outside prison for the future.Flag
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Name: Jean Hughes, OP on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Governor, Please do not allow incarceration to be nothing more than a political flag waved at election time. "Good time" is a non-issue. Every issue has a poster boy - the 1 or 2 tragic endings. People are eventually going to get out of prison. Crime is political trash topic during election year. Nobody ever brings up the real issue of how we keep people from being imprisoned in the first place. Since we have one of the largest percentages of the population imprisoned, after Russia and Iran, it should be a major concern. What does that say about us as a society? It's about choices. If we spent half the money on intervention and real rehabilitation that we spend on incarceration, the whole of society would change. The early release program is a good idea until someone with real guts pushes us as a society to actually evaluate the obsolete and ineffectual justice system and create a meaningful alternative.Flag
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Name: Ruby on Mar 12, 2010Comments: PLEASE.....do the right and compassinate thing! All of these inmates are not bad people, lots of them just made bad choices in their lives and would like a chance to make it right, also many of these inmates are convicted on circumstantial evidence alone....not PROVEN guilty! Do not make your decisions for political popularity....most people will vote when they realize you are someone who cares what happens to these inmates! I will be praying you make the right and humane decisions......Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Courtney Mcdonald on Mar 12, 2010Comments: Why be good if you get no reward? What happens when riots break out? When is over-crowding too much?Flag
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Name: Yesenia Sanchez on Mar 12, 2010Comments: All the families will very happy and relived if you do something good to help our families and our inmates.Flag
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Name: Sean Hanlon on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Stephanie Coulston on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Mary Kerber on Mar 12, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Karen Todd on Mar 12, 2010Comments: I am in agreement that Illinois needs somebody to put the prisons back on track.Flag