"Some people were doing 3-4 doubles a week. Doubles? So that's 16 hours," said Stacey Kempf, who's been running Tazewell's jail for the past two years, after spending 30 years with IDOC, the Illinois Department of Corrections. "Overtime sometimes drives people away."
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.
Obviously, we must release the prisoners, to address the staffing issue, for social justice!