Today, Illinois remains one of 17 states without discretionary parole. Only two groups can seek it: those sentenced before parole was abolished in 1978 and youthful offenders sentenced after 2019. Sen. Rachel Ventura introduced a bill in the previous legislative session that would have made the ban on life without parole retroactive, but it failed.
Ventura and her sidekick Manley are a couple more Dems ever willing to try out their latest “ social experiment “ upon the public, consequences be damned.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Ventura and her sidekick Manley are a couple more Dems ever willing to try out their latest “ social experiment “ upon the public, consequences be damned.