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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, According to news media reports there are over
3 2,000 petitions for Executive Clemency waiting for the
4 Governor's action; and
 
5     WHEREAS, The Prisoner Review Board has held hearings and
6 made recommendations to the Governor regarding each of these
7 petitions; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Some of these recommendations have been waiting
9 for Gubernatorial action for 6 years; and
 
10     WHEREAS, Illinois is facing a budget crisis in part due to
11 the number of people incarcerated in Illinois prisons; and
 
12     WHEREAS, Accepting the recommendations of the Prisoner
13 Review Board will inevitably reduce the prison population by
14 some number and reduce costs; and
 
15     WHEREAS, Some of the petitioners have served their
16 sentences or been exonerated, but cannot find jobs because of
17 the lack of action on their petitions; therefore, be it
 
18     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
19 NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE

 

 

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1 SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the General Assembly requests
2 that the Governor quickly and without further delay review the
3 recommendations of the Prisoner Review Board as to petitions
4 for Executive Clemency in each case, and grant or deny each
5 petition consistently with his review of each recommendation;
6 and be it further
 
7     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
8 forwarded to the Governor of the State of Illinois.