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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Nearly six weeks after Gov. Pat Quinn halted an early-release program that set free hundreds of potentially violent inmates, his administration is struggling to identify which criminals — or even how many — got out.
Corrections Department records released after inquiries from The Associated Press indicate the agency misidentified more than 200 inmates let go under the MGT Push program.
The agency released a corrected index Thursday night of 1,745 offenders, up from the 1,718 Quinn said were sent home when he halted the practice. An AP review of the two lists shows the names of 250 new offenders were added and 223 who hadn’t benefited from MGT Push were removed — for a net increase of 27.
