Editorial: New crime law requires changes not in public interest – Champaign News-Gazette

"But the mandated furloughs indicate what this legislation is all about...Home confinement was originally implemented for at least two reasons — to relieve jail crowding and to allow jail inmates perceived to be less of a threat than some others to be held in a setting less severe than jail but still be confined. Now to turn them loose on the grounds that they have errands to run or appointments to keep makes no sense. Home confinement is supposed to be inconvenient because engaging in criminal behavior is a threat to one’s personal liberty."

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