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posted by Paul Richardson
Tuesday, Jul 10, 07 @ 7:28 am
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Sounds like Stroger and Devine aren’t getting along all that well. Maybe that’s why Devine is reported to be reconsidering a another term.
I’m with Stroger on this one. Prosecutors generate prosecutions. The more prosecutors, the more prosecutions. And we know that Illinois’ bulging prisons contain huge numbers of nonviolent offenders, living off the public dime at $30,000 to $40,000 a year. They may be dangerous to themselves but prisons aren’t supposed to be social service agencies. And prisons don’t exist to provide jobs for prosecutors and Downstate prison workers.
Meanwhile, over at Juvenile Court, prosecutors help DCFS remove thousands of kids from their parents every year because of supposed abuse and neglect. Yet USA Today just published research results from MIT, based on Illinois data, showing that kids in foster care fare substantially worse than children in similar home situations who stay at home, with some help. Illinois still has 16,000 kids in foster care, most in Cook County. Maybe with fewer prosecutors in Juv Court, fewer kids will go into the highly lucrative foster care industrial complex. Better for the kids and better for the taxpayers. A win win.
Comment by Cassandra Tuesday, Jul 10, 07 @ 11:47 am
Obviously, the prosecutors deserve a raise. I consider prosecutors to be front line employees too, althoguh they are not risking their lives like police officers and firefighters.
Comment by Captain America Tuesday, Jul 10, 07 @ 12:24 pm
It’s funny that there is no revenue to pay for prosecutors’ COLAs while there is revenue to give public defenders a 12.75% COLA package with a $500 bonus and full retroactive raises going back to 2004.
It’s also ironic that at the very same meeting today that the prosecutors appeared at, Stroger recommended giving deputy sheriffs COLAs of over 14%! No talk of a revenue source there either.
By the way Cassandra, you have some problems if you think that parents who beat, burn and starve their children should not lose custody.
Comment by Mad as Hell Tuesday, Jul 10, 07 @ 11:27 pm