Found this on Illinois Review. The story is about former Cheers’ and Frasier star Kelsey Grammer’s deciding to shoot the television series “The Boss” in Chicago. Here’s what caught my attention. Creator Farhan Safinia comments on the lack of constitutional … Continue reading
Category Archives: Prison
Dennis Miller was not optimistic about the future of former Governor Rod Blagojevich. He called him “BlagojeFISH.” As many of you may know, my legislative social conscience cause during the 1990’s was stopping rape in prison. The stories, given wide … Continue reading
A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: FORMER FEDERAL PRISON CHAPLAIN INDICTED FOR ALLEGEDLY ILLEGALLY PASSING MESSAGES FOR CONVICTED KILLER FRANK CALABRESE, SR., AND ATTEMPTING TO TRANSFER CALABRESE’S HIDDEN PROPERTY CHICAGO — A former federal prison chaplain who ministered … Continue reading
State law envisions that those prisoners who can pay the approximately $26,000 a year that it takes to keep them in prison will do so. But, some inmates have the ability to earn cash doing various chores. There’s even … Continue reading
Thomas Puchmelter hung himself in his McHenry County Jail cell last weekend. While the Sheriff’s Office has not released much information. Daily Herald reporter Harry Hitzeman writes that a Freedom of Information request has been filed for the internal investigation … Continue reading
“Holy guano, Batman!” Of the 760 employees at Menard Correctional Center in the Metro East part of Illinois, 389 have filed claims. “That’s a big pile of guano, Robin!” Belleville News-Democrat reporters George Pawlaczky and Beth Hundsdorfer have discovered “hundreds … Continue reading
The Conservative government in Great Britain is selling off 90% of the Royal Mail. That prompted me to think of what the State of Illinois could sell. Tollways, of course, were targeted by former Governor Rod Blagojevich. I think the … Continue reading
16th District Congressman Don Manzullo received an encouraging letter yesterday, March 18th. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote, “With respect to your suggestion to move forward whether (or not) detainees from Guantanamo are moved there, the President has directed the … Continue reading
There is a way to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in prison. But it goes against the grain of everything considered by liberals as politically correct. The way to do it is to test all of the prisoners periodically and … Continue reading
Click on the image and you can read the small print on the bottom. Along the same line is Ottawa’s David Martin’s “Patti’s holiday letter,” published on the op-ed page of the Chicago Tribune Monday. It’s good satire and has … Continue reading
Click on the image and you can read the small print on the bottom. Along the same line is Ottawa’s David Martin’s “Patti’s holiday letter,” published on the op-ed page of the Chicago Tribune Monday. It’s good satire and has … Continue reading
In the late 1990’s after my bride and I had put a stucco addition on our home, I discovered a company called Solarcrete. I wish I had discovered it before. When I set up state government’s purchasing of natural gas from … Continue reading