There are eight inmates sentenced to jail in McLean County set to be released from the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections during the week ending March 19.
The inmate being released who served the longest time was James Miller for a sex crime. James Miller spent more than 16 years incarcerated.
According to The Institute for Illinois’ Fiscal Sustainability, Illinois spends about $37,000 a year per incarcerated person. In a study by Prison Policy Initiative, Illinois’ incarceration rate was at 564 per 100,000, higher than every industrialized country, except the United States. When compared with its surrounding states, Illinois was the lowest. Kentucky and Missouri have rates over 850 per 100,000.
One of the issues is how pretrial detainees are now handled. The Vera Institute of Justice noted that pretrial detainees made up 71% of the total jail population.
Most prison inmates are released on some condition of supervised monitoring upon reentering civilian life. This monitoring can last from one year to the rest of someone’s life.
| Name | Offense | Supervised Release Date | Holding Facility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heather Riddle | forgery | 2022-03-14 | Logan Correctional Center |
| Toby Birge | aggravated DUI | 2022-03-14 | Sheridan Correctional Center |
| Channing Biles | aggravated discharge of a firearm | 2022-03-16 | Illinois River Correctional Center |
| Cordell Avant | aggravated battery with a firearm | 2022-03-17 | Dixon Correctional Center |
| James Miller | sex crime | 2022-03-17 | Graham Correctional Center |
| Terrence Harris | Theft | 2022-03-17 | Pinckneyville Correctional Center |
| Keith Wright | manufacturing or delivery of 1-15 grams of cocaine | 2022-03-19 | Sheridan Correctional Center |
| Nathan Wolfskill | manufacturing or delivery of more than 5,000 grams of cannabis | 2022-03-19 | Sheridan Correctional Center |
