{"id":34853,"date":"2016-03-03T17:19:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T23:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=34853"},"modified":"2016-03-03T17:19:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T23:19:39","slug":"experts-discuss-how-to-reduce-illinois-prison-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/experts-discuss-how-to-reduce-illinois-prison-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Discuss How to Reduce Illinois Prison Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> By Torene Harvin <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">More than 40 people gathered at the Jenner and Block law firm Wednesday to discuss Gov. Bruce Rauner\u2019s plan to decrease the Illinois state prison population. <\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Policy and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced strategies to decrease the prison population by 2025. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are only a couple of ways to decreasing the prison population,\u201d said John Maki, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, executive director. \u201cThat\u2019s decreasing admissions and length of staying.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>[vimeo 157653622 w=474]<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Dr. Daniel Geiter is not a prisoner.  He wears his orange jumpsuit to represent the ex-offenders who have become productive members of their communities and are affected by the stigma of having been incarcerated. (Torene Harvin \/Medill)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Torene Harvin More than 40 people gathered at the Jenner and Block law firm Wednesday to discuss Gov. 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