Column: State’s inmate-transfer policy still a burr under sheriffs’ saddles – Champaign News-Gazette*

Jim Dey: "While county jails — some more than others — have population issues related to the corrections department’s coronavirus policies, the department’s population is falling. Because of a variety of early-release programs — some due to the pandemic, some not — the department’s population stood at 27,413 Wednesday, down from 28,529 in December 2019."