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Early Release Hearings Start Wednesday in Peoria
The cast of characters is all Republican, but the lawmakers behind new hearings into this year's prisoner-release program deny it's a partisan issue.

The GOP leaders of the House and Senate have formed an Illinois Joint Investigatory Committee on Early Release, looking into Gov. Pat Quinn's secret prisoner-release program called MGT Push. MGT stands for "meritorious good time." Quinn and his corrections director, Michael Randle, allowed prisoners to go free after spending very little time in state facilities.

State Rep. Dennis Reboletti (R-Elmhurst) is a co-chair of the committee and says the hearings -- Wednesday in Peoria and August 25 in Chicago -- are only taking place because the Democrat-controlled legislature has failed to get any answers on it, and a retired judge commissioned to do a special investigation has not yet produced answers.

(Illinois Radio Network)
08 09 10 by Newsroom
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